2019 Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 17-22
Some patients treated with dental implants are sometimes bothered by having medically unexplained oral symptoms（MUOS）. Although oral surgeons tend to regard them as “psychosomatic problems”, patients seldom accept such explanation, instead, they keep on convincing some organic causes. Some dentists had tried to solve these problems by depending on psychiatrists. However, psychiatrists find it difficult to understand deeply the oral complaint. Consequently, a mere psychiatric referral is usually not helpful. In such a situation, explaining and discussing the unknown origin of the oral symptoms is necessary. Oral surgeons are expected to have capability to assess properly psychosocial condition of the patients. In this article, the author introduced the concept of PIPC（Psychiatry In Primary Care）and how to deal with MUOS.
