Publication date: Available online 7 January 2019
Source: Archives of Oral Biology
Author(s): Isaac O. Pérez-Martínez, Casandra R. Acevedo-Roque, Claudia D. Montes-Angeles, Mariana Martínez, Florencio Miranda
Abstract
Objective
Dental treatment and orofacial surgeries may induce chronic neuropathic orofacial pain (CNOP). This kind of pain affects adaptability to environmental changes in both model animals and humans. Part of the adaptation process depends on the ability to distinguish between familiar and novel stimuli. CNOP induces novelty seeking behaviour as a deficit in environmental adaptation. Alternatively, novelty seeking is a sign for susceptibility to the development of substance abuse. Evidence shows that CNOP leads to alcoholism in animal models. The behavioural relationship between CNOP, novelty seeking behaviour and substance abuse is unknown. In this article, we investigate if CNOP produces an increase in novelty seeking and leads to increasing ethanol intake.
Design
Firstly, we used mental nerve injury as a neuropathic orofacial pain model to evaluate both thermal and mechanical allodynia. We used the novel recognition task to determine novelty seeking behaviour and the drink in darkness protocol to assess ethanol intake.
Results
Our results show that mental nerve constriction increases novelty seeking behaviour (p = 0.01) and correlates with ethanol binge consumption (r2 = 0.68, p = 0.0008).
Conclusions
The present study demonstrates, for the first time, that trigeminal nerve injury, which induces CNOP, is enough to provide novelty seeking behaviour and lead to increasing ethanol intake. The increase of novelty seeking behaviour can serve as a predictor of risk of developing substance abuse. The treatment of CNOP involves a high risk of producing addiction. The level of novelty seeking evaluation in patients with neuropathic pain before treatment is critical.
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