Dr. Joseph R. Cohen

Joseph R. Cohen, DDS Temporamandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain Joseph R. Cohen, DDS is founder of Southwest Pain Management Associates. He manages our Orofacial Pain Program. His practice focuses on orofacial pain including atypical tooth pain and headaches, trigeminal neuralgia, and temporomandibular joint disorders. Dr. Cohen is board certified by the American Board of Orofacial Pain, one of only three in Central Arizona. He is a member of many professional organizations including the American Dental Association, American Association for the Study of Headaches, American Pain Society, and the American Academy of Orofacial Pain. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Orofacial Pain Center at UCLA where he is a course director in the graduate program and assists with clinical instruction and in patient rounds. He is also on staff at University of Arizona Medical School in the Department of Anesthesia, a clinical instructor at Midwestern University, College of Osteopathy, Arizona Campus and is an Orofacial Pain Consultant for the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale. Dr. Cohen is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the University of Tennessee Dental School and has been in private practice in Phoenix since 1971. He has authored many articles and has lectured on Craniomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain all over the world.