Abstract
We examined two cases in which patients with orofacial pain were referred to a pain clinic after dental treatment, what they complained of, and what they looked like. When a patient visits a physical doctor complaining of physical symptoms, it is common to be treated from the physical side first. Since pain is a sensory experience and an unpleasant emotional experience, it is both a physical symptom and an emotion. Focusing on emotions may advance diagnosis and treatment. In the dental treatment of older adults, if pain or numbness occurs after implant placement for aesthetic purposes, the response to remove it is a conflict situation in which the unpleasant thing （pain） is reduced for the patient, but the good thing is also lost （loss of beauty）. If nerve damage occurs for purposes other than aesthetics, it may develop into a dispute, and anger may accumulate. In such a situation, pain treatment is not effective, and repeated further medical treatment is likely to result in secondary injury. Treating emotions first, rather than pain sensations, is beneficial in such cases. Interviews for unpleasant emotions such as anger and sadness were shown as simulated cases.
