Sleep disorders and orofacial pain: insights for dental practice.

Aust Dent J

Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine Department of Physiology, and Centre for the Study of Pain, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Published: September 2024

In dental sleep medicine several sleep disorders commonly coexist with pain, contributing to complex clinical presentations which might affect the provision of appropriate and timely treatment. There are associations between sleep disorders and pain in general, as well as with specific orofacial pain conditions. As many as five of six patients with orofacial pain can present with sleep problems. The comorbidity of orofacial pain and sleep disorders overlays a complex web of altered neurobiological mechanisms that predispose to the chronification of orofacial pain. This review discusses the relationship between orofacial pain and sleep disorders and highlights their interactions and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying those relationships.

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