Orofacial Pain of Non-dental Origin
Informations
Dear Colleagues, Our next webinar is scheduled for Tuesday 24/01/2023 at 20:00. During this webinar our speaker, Endodontist Michail Koutris will be covering the topic “Orofacial Pain of Non-dental Origin”. This webinar is a collaboration of the Hellenic Association of Endodontists ant the Dental Association of Larissa. Attendees will be credited 1,5 CE credits (MEEO) the Hellenic Association of Endodontists and 1,5 CPD Credit Hour. The language of the webinar will be Greek.
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Abstract
The general but also the specialized dentist is everyday assessing patients with orofacial pain in their office. The first, but at the same time the most important step in managing these patients, is setting the proper diagnosis. This may include several and various pathologies. The most common etiology of orofacial pain is dental pathology . At the same time, pain from musculoskeletal origin (known as Temporomandibular Disorders-TMD) but even more scarce causes like neuropathic pain are always considered in the differential diagnosis. Moreover, some of these pathologies may co-exist at the same time complicating the patients’ complaints significantly. The International Classification of Orofacial Pain – ICOP that was recently published, describes in details these entities with specific diagnostic criteria.
The aim of this webminar is to describe the clinical signs and symptoms that may indicate the presence of comorbidity or a more scarce cause of orofacial pain. This will, first of all, help the clinician avoid unnecessary (invasive) treatments but also consider further referral to dental or medical specialists in order to assess and manage the patient appropriately.
Short CV
Michail Koutris
Michail Koutris graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Dentistry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
In 2007, he obtained his MSc degree in Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction from the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) and in 2013 he successfully defended his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Michail Koutris is specialized in TMD/Orofacial Pain, Past Chair of the Research Committee of the European Academy of Craniomandibular Disorders (EACD), past Secretary and Treasurer and President of the International Network for Orofacial Pain and Related Disorders Methodology (INfORM), a Network of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR), co-founder of the European Academy of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction (EAOPD), past chair and current member of the Scientific Committee of the EAOPD.
He is currently director of the Clinic and the postgraduate program on Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction Clinic of ACTA.
He is working as Assistant Professor at the department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction of ACTA, as an orofacial pain specialist at the Special Dental Care Clinic of the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AUMC), and at the Special Dental Care clinic of Amsterdam (Stichting Bijzonder Tandheelkunde-SBT Amsterdam).
He is part-time working as a freelancer Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction specialist in Greece as well.
