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Review Article

Year: 2019 | Month: July | Volume: 6 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 45-47

Trigeminal Neuralgia and Its Diagnosis: A Complete Review

Lagushetty Sravan

Undergraduate, Manthena Narayana Raju Dental College, Sangareddy, Telangana, India

ABSTRACT

A most common phenomenon that affects many people worldwide is neuropathic pain. Trigeminal neuralgia is a neuropathic pain in which pain is unilateral, mostly radiating, shock like pain with trigger points; mostly occur by superficial touch on skin. The neuralgic pain can be experienced as a result of nerve injury or due to any pathological reason present centrally or at periphery. So in neuralgic pain misdiagnosis is common, due to lack to investigation and proper treatment plan. The aim of this review is to discuss about trigeminal neuralgia and its currently available diagnostic procedures and treatment options of it.

Key words: Trigeminal neuralgia, neuralgic pain

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