Odontalgia mimicking trigeminal neuralgia.
Proper diagnosis of facial pain is complex and requires careful evaluation of several organ systems. When patients fail to respond to firstline therapy, a complete differential diagnosis is essential for the prevention of mistreatment or overtreatment. A case is presented in which multispecialty cooperation resulted in successful treatment of chronic pain which had not responded to aggressive primary medical therapy.
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014098:Toothache / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000175:diagnosis*