著者

荒尾 宗孝 今泉 一郎 近藤 三男 伊藤 隆子 伊藤 幹子 栗田 腎一

出版者

Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry

雑誌

日本歯科心身医学会雑誌 (ISSN:09136681)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, no.1, pp.75-79, 2001-06-25 (Released:2011-09-20)

参考文献数

7

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A 45-year-old female patient was referred to us from the Department of Endodontics at Aichi-gakuin University School of Dentistry with a long and complex dental history. Her chief complaint was chronic pain in teeth which had been pulpectomied at other dental clinics. We chose brief psychotherapy and chemotherapy with the use of just one anti-anxiety drug. While at the Department of Endodontics, root canal treatment had also been performed on the teeth with chronic pain. First, we had her come to the hospital once a week and listened to her account of the degree of chronic pain and the related anxiety experienced. Her chronic pain decreased gradually and she started coming to our hospital once in two weeks instead. Finally, root canal filling and prosthodontic treatment were performed without any trouble. She has recently been coming to the hospital about once a month. We let her consult with us about her anxiety and ask questions related to the experience of chronic pain in teeth to prevent the recurrence of her state of fear.

著者

伊藤 幹子 木村 宏之 尾崎 紀夫 荒尾 宗孝 木村 有希 伊藤 隆子 栗田 賢一

出版者

Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry

雑誌

日本歯科心身医学会雑誌 (ISSN:09136681)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, no.1, pp.13-22, 2006-06-25 (Released:2011-09-20)

参考文献数

14

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In 1999, the authors organized a medical liaison group composed of dentists and a psychiatrist at the outpatient clinic of the Department of First Oral Surgery, Hospital of the School of Dentistry, Aichi Gakuin University, for the diagnosis and treatment of oral psychosomatic disorders. The practice has been for the dentists of the medical liaison group to examine each patient and diagnose his/her oral somatic disorder in the first stage of the examination, and the psychiatrist to examine each patient and make diagnosis according to DSM-IV or DSM-IV TR in the second stage.The subjects of this study were 13 patients with personality disorders (PD) among 268 patients examined during a 5-year and 4-month period from 2000 to 2004. The diagnoses by the dentists consisted of five cases of atypical facial pain, three of burning mouth syndrome, two of oral malaise, one of dental phobia, one of temporomandibular joint disorder, and one of halitophobia. Those by the psychiatrist consisted of six cases of pain disorder, two of conversion disorder, two of somatization disorder, one of hypochondriasis, one of specific phobia, and one of adjustment disorder. On DSM-IV Axis II, the diagnosis/suspicion results consisted of three cases of paranoid PD, two of avoidant PD, two of obsessive-compulsive PD, two of borderline PD, two of narcissistic PD, one of histrionic PD, and one of dependent PD. It was very difficult for us to manage the patients with borderline PD and narcissistic PD in cases of invasive treatment such as a tooth extraction. It has been found that the comorbidity of not only mental disorders but also personality disorders does need to be diagnosed and dentists ought to plan their therapeutic strategy for patients with personality disorders under the supervision of psychiatrists