Position Paper: Appropriate Use of Pharmacotherapeutic Agents by the Orofacial Pain Dentist.

The article discusses orofacial pain dentists' appropriate use of pharmacotherapeutic agents. A discussion of recommendations which have been offered by the American Academy of Orofacial Pain on the appropriate use of pharmacotherapeutics by orofacial pain dentists is presented. The role that having knowledge about pharmacotherapeutic agents can play in an orofacial pain dentist's ability to properly treat patients is discussed.