Psychosomatic disorders: An overview for oral physician

Psychosomatic disorders: An overview for oral physician

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A psychosomatic disorder involves both the body and mind.These diseases have physical symptoms originating from mental or emotional causes.Most common causes are stress, anxiety, and depression.When these psychological entities are not perceived properly, it may result in somatic disease due to conversion hysteria.

Even the oral and paraoral structures show manifestations Window Replacement of these psychosomatic disorders.The present review has been done from text books and articles relevant to psychosomatic disorders.Relevant articles have been selected and filtered from TV Connect databases using MeSH terms psychosomatic diseases, oral mucosal diseases, stress, etc., with boolean operators from 1990 till date.

This review highlights the important aspects of the psychosomatic diseases affecting oral cavity.