Phantom Tooth pain, is it Often a Trigeminal Neuralgia?

pain lateralization in trigeminal neuralgia

Pain Lateralization in Trigeminal Neuralgia

I read the article by Bangash (1) with great interest, as it reconfirms the repeatedly reported finding of the predominance of affection of the right side of the face in patients with trigeminal neuralgia. This finding is even more intriguing as trigeminal neuralgia behaves quite opposite to many other painful disorders as pain in general was assumed to be more common on the left side of the bo...

Pain Part 7: Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is also known as ‘tic douloureux’ (in French, ‘painful twitch’). It is a rare chronic facial pain syndrome, characterized by severe, brief, stabbing, ‘electric shock-like’ recurrent pain attacks felt in one or more divisions of trigeminal nerve innervation areas. So intense is the elicited pain that TN has a significant effect on a sufferer’s quality of life, rendering...

Topical ophthalmic amethocaine alleviates trigeminal neuralgia pain

BACKGROUND Trigeminal neuralgia (TGN) is a challenging pain syndrome. AIM To test the effectiveness of local instillation of ophthalmic solution of amethocaine in relieving the pain of TGN. METHODS We performed an open-label prospective study in 40 consecutive currently treated patients suffering from TGN with a reported visual analog scale (VAS) >8 (severe pain). The patients received two ...

Trigeminal neuralgia and persistent idiopathic facial pain.

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and persistent idiopathic facial pain (PIFP) are two of the most puzzling orofacial pain conditions and affected patients are often very difficult to treat. TN is characterized by paroxysms of brief but severe pain followed by asymptomatic periods without pain. In some patients a constant dull background pain may persist. This constant dull pain sometimes makes the dis...