Volume 5 Issue 4 Oct.- Dec. 2022
Case Reports
A TREATMENT OPTION FOR TIC DOULOUREUX, PERIPHERAL NEURECTOMY OF INFERIOR ALVEOLAR NERVE: A CASE REPORT
Manisha Solanki, Puspadip Kharel, Hemlata Solanki, Dev Deepak
Trigeminal neuralgia is defined as sudden, sharp shooting, lancinating, severe, electric-shock-like, or stabbing, paroxysmal, recurring pain in the distribution of one or more branches of trigeminal nerve. Tic Douloureux, Prosopalgia and Fothergill’s disease are the synonyms used to describe the same disease. In spite of the condition being known since centuries, it still continues to baffle the clinician and its pathogenesis remains an enigma to the medical profession. Multiple views have been hypothesized regarding its etiology but, most of the time etiology is idiopathic and simultaneously opting for many different therapies in an effort to treat this ongoing condition. This paper presents a patient with a case of trigeminal neuralgia who was suffering from severe sharp shooting pain for 2 years and treated with Carbamazepine with no significant effect. The patient was treated and cured with peripheral neurectomy under general anesthesia.
