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This review article will discuss regarding the important aspects of the pain control in dentistry. Pain management is complex under taking; unfortunately we are just being to learn the rules of game. It is the patient’s body that does the healing, not the doctor; the most that we can do is providing favorable condition for healing. Patient must understand that it is they, not we who determine final outcome of therapy. First step in the treatment of any condition is accurate and complete diagnosis, what is problem, structures involved and condition account for it. The diagnosis of pain is pain genesis of modulating conditions of inhibitory and excitatory mechanism of physical and emotional reactions that occur in human being as distinct individuals. Pain present to patient is peculiar to him or here we dentists are trained as therapists more than diagnostician’s. Dental practitioners are conditioned to treat and our patients are conditioned to accept the treatment. Dental practitioners are more mouth oriented than patient orient-ed. Dental practitioners do well as long as every thing is obvious when we face problems our condition may fail us. Because when we meet on obscure pain complaints we need to call forth all our best diagnostics capabilities. Field of orofacial pain includes pain conditions that are associated with the hard and soft tissue of head, neck and all intraoral structures the diagnostic range includes headache, musculoskeletal pain, neurogenic psychogenic pain, pain from major diseases like AIDS, TB, cancer etc the evaluation and treatment of orofacial pain has evolved into a shared responsibility between dentist and physician with considerable overlap that is distinguished only by the individuals knowledge and training .