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Oro-facial pain (or myo-fascial pain) represents a group chronic painful conditions that affect the face, head and upper neck. The cause of this pain might be related to inflammation around the jaw joint, known as Temporo-Mandibular Joint Disorder (TMD).

Many of those painful conditions can be treated with simple physiotherapy and analgesics. However, moderate and severe cases should be managed using the Occlusal Splint Therapy. The Occlusal Splint is an intra-oral device that patients put on during sleep to relieve tension and inflammation around the TMJ, the chewing muscles and the surrounding ligaments.

Oral Medicine

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 16:43

The Oral Medicine consultancy clinic at UHS is one of very few clinics in the United Arab Emirates. It specializes in diagnosing and treating a wide range of diseases that represent medical problems appearing in the mouth and the head and neck area in general.

Our consultant has a long and advanced clinical expertise in diagnosing complex oral diseases. Those include lesions affecting tongue and oral mucosa (the inner lining of the mouth), mouth cancer and pre-cancerous lesions, disturbances in saliva secretions, painful conditions affecting the head and neck area, including disorders affecting the jaw joint, known as Temporo-Mandibular Joint Disorders (or TMD).

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