Psychosomatic Disorders Affecting Mouth-A Review Article

For the past few years, a gradual rise of psychiatric disorders representating a major public health problem came into being. Anxiety and depression are two most prevalent psychiatric diseases. Oral mucosa being reactive to emotional influences like stress, anxiety, depression, act as a window to reflect clues about overall health and sometimes it becomes the first sign of a disease. Often patients complain certain oral discomforts cause of which remain undetermined. These symptoms often thought of mental or emotion in origin and can be termed as “ORAL PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS”representating a new category of syndrome called Medically Unexplained Oral Symptoms/Syndromes(MUOS).Often dentists find it challenging to treat such patients due to lack of any convincing physical explanation of the same. This review highlights the correlation between psychological factors and its subsequent responses on oral health resulting certain orofacial pathologies, struggles in handling patients, challenging treatment plans and involvement of counselling and psychiatrists referral at early stages which could ensure betterment of patient by early diagnosis of his or her mental status and treating the same.