Orofacial Pain With Drs. Meredith Barad and Marcela Romero-Reyes

Orofacial pain comprises many disorders with different etiologies and pathophysiologies. A multidisciplinary approach combining medication, physical therapy, and procedural and psychological strategies is essential in treating patients with orofacial pain.

In this episode, Teshamae Monteith, MD, FAAN, speaks with Meredith Barad, MD; Marcela Romero-Reyes, DDS, PhD, authors of the article “Orofacial Pain,” in the Continuum® October 2024 Pain Management in Neurology issue.

Dr. Monteith is the associate editor of Continuum® Audio and an associate professor of clinical neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.

Dr. Barad is a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine, and neurology and neurological sciences and codirector of the Stanford Facial Pain Program at Stanford Medicine in Stanford, California.

Dr. Romero-Reyes is a clinical professor and director of the Brotman Facial Pain Clinic and Department of Neural and Pain Sciences at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Dr Jones: This is Dr Lyell Jones, Editor-in-Chief of Continuum, the premier topic-based neurology clinical review and CME journal from the American Academy of Neurology. Thank you for joining us on Continuum Audio, which features conversations with Continuum 's guest editors and authors who are the leading experts in their fields. Subscribers to the Continuum Journal can read the full article or listen to verbatim recordings of the article and have access to exclusive interviews not featured on the podcast. Please visit the link in the episode notes for more information on the article, subscribing to the journal, and how to get CME.

Dr Monteith: This is Dr Teshamae Monteith, associate editor of Continuum Audio.

Today I'm interviewing Drs Meredith Barad and Marcela Romero-Reyes about their article on oralfacial pain, which appears in the October 2024 Continuum issue on pain management and neurology. Welcome to the podcast, ladies. How are you? 

Dr Barad: Excellent. 

Dr Romero-Reyes: Fine, happy to be here. 

Dr Monteith: I am so happy to see you. I mean, I think both of you I've known for like ten years.

Dr Romero-Reyes: Yeah. 

Dr Barad: Yes. 

Dr Monteith: So why don't you introduce yourselves? While I know you, our audience, some of them, may not know you. 

Dr Romero-Reyes: I'm Dr Marcella Romero Reyes. I am a neuropathial pain specialist, clinical professor, and director of the Provident Special Pain Clinic here in the University of Maryland School of Dentist.

Dr Monteith: Excellent. 

Dr Barad: My name is Meredith