Facial pain is a condition that causes distressing feelings in patients because it affects important functions such as speaking, laughing, moving, and swallowing. Facial pain can have many causes. The most common cause is tooth and gum problems. Subsequently, there may be pathologies of the jawbone joint, neurological or vascular causes, and pain arising from the tissues in the facial region.
Facial pain is a condition that causes distressing feelings in patients because it affects important functions such as speaking, laughing, moving, and swallowing. Facial pain can have many causes. The most common cause is tooth and gum problems. Subsequently, there may be pathologies of the jawbone joint, neurological or vascular causes, and pain arising from the tissues in the facial region.
The cause of the pain may vary according to other accompanying symptoms. Localization of pain, duration of pain, frequency and accompanying symptoms are important for determining the cause of pain. Consult your doctor for the treatment of the cause of facial pain that does not go away for a few weeks.
The most common causes of facial pain are:
- Skeletal or muscular pains
- Temporamandibular diseases
- Costen syndrome
- Joint disorders
- Synovitis-capsulitis
- Osteoarthritis
- Chewing muscle disorders
- Myofascial pain
- Myositis
- Myospasm
- Local myalgia
- Articular disc disorders
- Tension-type headache
- Neurological facial pain
- Neuropathic pain
- Episodic conditions
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
- Persistent neuropathic pain
- Herpathic or postherpatic neuralgia
- Traumatic neuralgia
- Eagle’s syndrome
- Vascular causes
- Giant cell arteritis
- Carotid dissection
- Neurovascular causes
- Migraine
- Cluster headache
- Half a headache
- Idiopathic causes
- Atypical facial pain
- Atypical odentology
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Other reasons
- Local pathologies
- Local neuron damage
- Reflected pains of earaches
- Pain in the mouth and pharynx
- Reflected pains of distant pathologies
- Causes originating from the larynx
- Causes originating from the esophagus
- Causes originating from the cervical region
- Causes originating from the central nervous system
- Neck, heart and lung diseases
- Intracranial tumors
- Systemic diseases
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Fibromyalgia
- Lyme disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Psychogenic causes
- Somatoform diseases
- Malingering
- Factitious disorders
- Local pathologies
- Temporamandibular diseases