Abstract
Increasing psychological burden, sharing symptoms via social networks, and aging of the polymorbid population contribute to a significant increase in patients with multiple symptoms of pain and other pathological feelings in the orofacial area, which dentists and other specialists can not explain with pathological-anatomical findings. We see many such patients (5-10 % of all patients in dentistry) in our offices, but their treatment seems to be scientifically almost at point zero.
The embarrassment around them led to unclear classification, the absence of recommended treatments, and the "mailing" of these patients among specialists. They form a dreaded group of patients that many try to avoid and have been harmed "in good faith" by some doctors providind unnecessary procedures.
Interest to systematically treat such patients is desperately insufficient. Care is underfunded because health insurance companies nowhere in the world can appreciate "talking to the sick".
The effort to reverse this situation created the concept of "MUOS-medically unexplained symptoms in the oral cavity" associated with the education of a new type of specialists and the call for the building of the necessary network of outpatient clinics or inpatient facilities.