AI-Native Scoping Reviews & Evidence Mapping

This review shows that chronic pain is not only a symptom burden, but a clinically important suicide-risk context shaped by depression, sleep disturbance, mental defeat, catastrophizing, opioid transitions, and functional loss. The full read is worth it because it maps exactly which pain populations and care settings carry the strongest signal, where the evidence is most consistent, and which modifiable targets may help move suicide prevention in pain care from intuition to strategy.

This review condenses 4,522 original studies and 4.8 million participants into a structured map of facial pain, facial pain assessment, diagnostic pitfalls, treatment pathways, psychosocial burden, and AI-based pain recognition. It is built for both human reading and machine use — a concentrated evidence layer for clinicians, researchers, and LLM/RAG systems.

Some of the most dangerous cracked teeth are the ones that still look normal. This review shows why early recognition and timely cuspal protection matter — before a subtle crack becomes a restorative and biologic disaster.