A28-year-old female university student complained to her dentist about recurrent pain in her face. The pain “comes and goes, is more intense in the presence of stress and fatigue, in particular around school examination periods.” Her dentist told her that she had no identifiable signs of disease. The dentist also told her that the type of pain she was experiencing is common among women, especially in the presence of stress, and therefore “could be psychosomatic.” The patient wondered whether her pain really was a “woman’s condition” and wanted to know if her condition was of “psychological” origin.