Symptoms

  • Episodes of severe, shooting, jabbing, electric-type pain
  • Episodes that last seconds to minutes; attacks that last from days to months with periods of no pain
  • Pain triggered by face-touching, drinking, eating, chewing, speaking, or teeth-brushing
  • Constant aching and burning feeling before spasm-like pain
  • Pain in cheek, jaw, teeth, gums, lips, or less often the eye and forehead
  • Pain in one side of the face
  • Pain in one spot or spread in a wider pattern

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Causes and Risk Factors

In trigeminal neuralgia, the function of the trigeminal nerve is disrupted from contact between a normal blood vessel and the trigeminal nerve at the base of the brain, leading to pressure on the nerve.

This can be a result of ageing, tumour, multiple sclerosis, or a disorder that damages the myelin sheath protecting certain nerves.

Brain lesion, surgical injuries, stroke, or facial trauma may also be a potential cause.

Patient Referrals

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Referral Forms