Pathological corporal sensations in oral and maxillofacial region: etiology and approaches to therapy
The relationship between atypical prosopalgia and the accompanying mental disorders remains a subject of debate, in which supporters of somatocentric and psychocentric concepts oppose each other. In the psychocentric paradigm, atypical orofacial pain syndromes are interpreted as pathological corporal sensations in the maxillofacial region. In favor of this hypothesis testify both frequent debut of the disease after stressful events, and the low efficacy of somatotropic drugs, surgical and dental treatment.