What is Trigeminal Neuralgia?
Trigeminal neuralgia is an extremely painful inflammation of the trigeminal nerve causing facial pain. Symptoms remain confined to the trigeminal nerve distribution (mostly to the second or third branch of one side). Trigeminal neuralgia is a condition that occurs most frequently in adulthood and more women. Spontaneous remissions may present for several months.
It is a paroxysmal pain lasting few seconds often caused by an external stimulus in the territory of a branch of the trigeminal, no neurological deficit. Trigeminal neuralgia, also called tic douloureux is probably more intense acute pain known. Affects regions of the face innervated by the trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve V) following, typically, the distribution of this nerve branches do in their path.