Center for Orofacial Pain Research

This group focuses on research questions that revolve around pain, function, diagnosis and classification. The research activities take place within three laboratories for primary data collection: neurosensory, biomechanics and psychophysiology.

About The Center for Orofacial Pain Research

In addition to our laboratories, we also utilize a clinic setting for some of our studies. We partner with multiple institutions in the U.S., as well as internationally, for larger scale projects. The spectrum of chronic pain in general is an overarching perspective for our research activities that include determinants of motor behavior and its peripheral organization, diagnostic methods, disability and the biopsychosocial model of disease, instrument development, international studies, joint mechanics, longitudinal studies and taxonomic development. We are active members of the International RDC/TMD Consortium Network.

Current Projects

Research Diagnostic Criteria: Reliability and Validity
OPPERA: Orofacial Pain Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment
Ontology for orofacial pain and pain-related disability
Longitudinal changes in intra-articular TMJ disorders
Pain related Functional Limitation and Disability
Culture and the Expression of Pain
Oral Parafunctional Behavior

Members

Name	Research Area
Yoly M Gonzalez, DDS, MS	Clinical epidemiology
Scott McCall, PhD	Neuroscience
Richard Ohrbach, DDS, PhD	Clinical psychology
Louis Goldberg, DDS, PhD	Neuroscience and biosemiotics