Optimal Pain Management for the Dental Team

Tara Renton, PhD, is a dentist with a particular interest in trigeminal nerve injuries and pain. After completing her Oral and Maxillofacial surgical training in Melbourne in 1991, Tara undertook a PhD in Trigeminal Nerve injury at KCL 1999-2003. She was later appointed Senior Lecturer at QMUL and then was awarded her chair in 2006 at King's College London. From 2006-2015 Tara led the teaching of dental students modernising the Oral Surgical teaching with minimal access approach and modern LA techniques. She has established an academic oral surgery training programme for Academic Oral Surgery SpRs and has supervised 7 PhDs. In collaboration with IoPPN KCL and Imperial College Tara has established an international leading programme of trigeminal nerve injury and orofacial pain research. She leads the Kings Health Partners Orofacial Pain Service seeing over 2K OFP patients a year. 

Intro to Pain.- The Psychology Theories of Pain.- Psychological Interventions for Persistent Pain.- An Overview of Dental Anxiety and its Non-Medical Management.- Medical Management of Anxiety.- Perioperative Pain Management of the Dental Patient.- Optimal Local Anaesthesia for Dentistry.- Temporomandibular Disorder for the General Dental Practitioner.- Chronic Pain and Overview or Differential Diagnoses of  Non-Odontogenic Orofacial Pain.- Dental Pain: Dentine Sensitivity, Hypersensitivity and Cracked Tooth Syndrome.

"This textbook is a comprehensive compilation of high-quality reading material supported by current best evidence, and should be on the shelves of all dentists involved in delivery of clinical care." (Laura O'Sullivan, British Dental Journal, Vol. 236 (4), February, 2024)