Medical conditions and body pain in patients presenting orofacial pain

objective: to verify the frequency of self-reported medical conditions and pain areas in orofacial pain patients, comparing them with patients from the routine dental care. methods: data were collected from archives of the orofacial pain clinic (group a, n=319) and of the routine dental care clinics (group b, n=84) at faculdade de odontologia de araraquara, s？o paulo, in brazil. all individuals answered a standardized clinical questionnaire and completed a body map indicating their pain areas. results: the mann-whitney's test demonstrated that group a presented a higher mean number of medical reports than group b (p=0.004). in both groups, pearson's correlation test showed that the highest frequencies of medical conditions were positively correlated to highest frequencies of painful areas (0.478, p=0.001 and 0.246, p=0.000, respectively). conclusions: group a tended to report more medical conditions and there was a positive correlation between the number of medical conditions and the one of pain areas for both groups.