Review on Trigeminal Neuralgia

Aim: To write a review on trigeminal neuralgia. Objective: To analyze the competence of the new trends over the old trends and decipher the advantages and disadvantages of both. Background: Trigeminal Neuralgia is a clinical syndrome characterized by brief, repetitive, extremely intense paroxysms of unilateral facial pain. The pain can be triggered by cutaneous stimuli including those resulting from daily activities like brushing the teeth, chewing or talking. The condition may begin at any age, although it tends to occur more frequently with advancing age and it affects women somewhat more often than men. Medical therapy is considered the primary treatment for patients with trigeminal neuralgia. Sometimes, surgical therapy is also offered if medical therapy is inefficient or causes too many side effects. Method: Reviews on trigeminal neuralgia were collected from journals with a PubMED , Science Direct and Scopus Index. Results: The articles collected were based on the various treatments and diagnostics of pain of trigeminal neuralgia.