Drug therapy for chronic pain is complex and often involves multiple drugs with different routes of administration. Patients often express anxiety about dependence on medication and may sometimes feel that drug therapy is used or recommended in place of “getting to the real cause” of the pain. It is becoming essential for oral physicians to have a thorough knowledge of complementary and alternative treatment modalities for the treatment of chronic Orofacial pain and chronic Orofacial diseases as there is increasing evidence of conventional medication misuse or abuse, adverse effects of conventional medicines, increased resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a group of unconventional medical systems, practices provided by medical doctors and other conventionally trained health professionals. All treatment modalities are listed according to…
