title: Chronic facial pain.
abstract: The diagnosis of the cause of facial pain can be made clinically in the great majority of cases, if the physician is aware of the gamut of manifestations of the various disorders which may produce the symptom. Therapeutic tests are sometimes helpful in diagnosis, but extensive ancillary investigation often is unnecessary. The management of facial pain is one area of medicine in which the knowledgeable clinician can more than hold his own with the contemporary proliferation of specialized investigational tools.
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005145:Face; D005156:Facial Neuralgia / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D014653:Vascular Headaches / Q000150:complications