Population
Patients with chronic orofacial pain / "psychogenic" facial pain
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May support antidepressant consideration for psychogenic facial pain; leaves open RCTs to confirm mechanism-independent effects.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Patients with chronic orofacial pain / "psychogenic" facial pain
I
Intervention
Antidepressants (e.g., dothiepin hydrochloride)
Antidepressants are highlighted as the most successful pharmacological treatment for psychogenic facial pain, independent of their antidepressant effects.
Cite This Study
R. Brian Haynes (1992) studied this question.