Joanna M Zakrzewska

Professor of Pain in Relation to Oral Medicine, Clinical and Diagnostic Oral Sciences Dental Institute, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Turner Street, London E1 2AD, UK

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia is considered to be a rare disease and the estimated prevalence from an old study in the USA put it at 4.1/10,000.2 More recent studies in the UK3 and Holland,4 using data from...

Differential diagnosis for orofacial pain, including sinusitis, tmd, trigeminal neuralgia

A thorough pain history is crucial and time needs to be taken when taking it as it should provide sufficient detail to guide clinicians to the most likely diagnosis. It is also important to institute...