Seasons Pain Clinic
Facial Pain Clinic
The Facial Pain Management section at Seasons Pain Clinic offers comprehensive medical services to ease facial pain that can cause mild to severe discomfort in patients.
As in head and neck pain cases, the first step in correctly diagnosing the problem is to give the patient a number of questionnaires to fill out. A Pain Center dentist will then give the patient a thorough examination. Following that, a battery of medical tests may be performed, including image scans, lab tests and psychological evaluations, as well as nerve blocks and other techniques that can uncover important clues to the causes of the condition.
Commonly Treated Disorders for Facial Pain
Facial Pain
- Trigeminal neuralgia (pain in the lips, gums, cheek or chin)
- Trigeminal dysesthesia (abnormal feeling in the lips, gums, cheek or chin)
- Post-surgical and post-traumatic face pain
- Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (tongue pain or pain in the pharynx)
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
Facial Musculoskeletal Pain
- Temporomandibular disorders (also know as TJM, or pain in the joint that connects the jaw to the skull)
- Myofascial pain (face muscle disorders causing spasms, limited motion and other symptoms)
Facial Spasms
- Hemifacial spasm (sudden muscle contraction on one side of the face)
- Torticollis (muscle contraction that causes the neck to twist unnaturally)
- Myoclonus (muscle twitching)
- Blepherospasm (twitching of the eyelid)
Facial Paralysis
- Bells palsy (paralysis of one side of the face)
- Post-surgical paralysis
- Post-stroke paralysis
Range of Treatments
- Pharmacotherapy (medications)
- Physical therapy
- Splint therapy
- Behavioral therapy
- Nerve blocks
- Botulinum injections
- Surgery
