Clinical Service

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This clinic cares for physically tested healthy patients who still have some problems in their maxillofacialarea by using the link between mind and body.

Our target symptoms include:

・A burning or scaldedsensationonyour tongue, lips, gums, palate or throat for months

・dry mouth(xerostomia)

・Loss of taste, taste changes

・Discomfortable feeling in your mouth

・Chronic pain in a tooth or teeth, or in a site where teeth have been extracted or followingendodontic treatment

Main psychosomatic treatment is psychopharmacological one with SSRIs(Selective Serotonin ReuptakeInhibitors), SNRI(Serotonin-Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitor), SDAs(Serotonin-Dopamin antagonists)etc. And supportive psychotherapies are applied.
Intractable cases are increasing year by year, we take care of every patient and have good clinicalcourses about 70% of them.
We believe there are exactly “oral psychosomatic disorders”, and dentists should be incharge of treatment. Psychosis, as a matter of course, should be taken care by psychiatrists, so wediscriminate them from oral psychosomatic disorders, and properly refer to psychiatry.
On the other hand, on “functional somatic symptoms secondary to psychiatry disorders”, which are refer to us from psychiatrists, we do our best in cooperation with psychiatrists.
We have about 600 new outpatients per year, and almost of them were referred from other specialistsnot only in dentistry but also internal medicine, otorhinolaryngology, dermatology, psychosomaticmedicine, and psychiatry. They come from the Metropolitan area, of course, Osaka, Kyushu, Hokkaidoand so on. We take fine-grained care and follow up, total number of patients is up to 10,000 per year.
We have a mission to meet the demand of these patients and their families, so better treatmentoutcome and increasing efficiency are required, and cooperation with other medical specialists isneeded.


Our doctors have experience in diagnosing and treating: Burning mouth syndrome, Atypicalodontalgia, dry mouth, TMD,Oral dysaesthesia,Phantom bite syndrome, Dental fear,Taste disorder.