The trigeminal neuralgia was treated as a toothache Fuzhou News Network, the face of 70-year-old Yim Chen has been in pain for 16 years, once thought to be caused by dental disease. 8 years after the extraction of four teeth in a row, still no good. Recently, she was completely cured of her face pain through minimally invasive surgery. The chief neurosurgeon of the provincial hospital, Yuan Sutao, introduced that patients with trigeminal neuralgia (i.e. face pain) commonly have the wrong teeth extracted, and facial pain should go to the hospital as soon as possible to investigate the cause. On the morning of the 4th, Yim Chen came to the neurosurgery department of the Provincial Hospital for a follow-up consultation. She recalled that 16 years ago the right side of the face began to vaguely pain, thought it was gum inflammation, a pain on a few anti-inflammatory drugs to eat the matter. She didn’t expect the attacks to become more and more frequent, from once a month at the beginning to four or five times a day, and her face felt like it was being cut and burned. She went to the dental clinic for examination, and the doctor suspected that the pain was caused by tooth decay or other dental diseases, so she had a tooth extracted from her right lower jaw. After that, every time her face became painful, she had four teeth extracted in eight years, but her condition was not relieved at all. For many years, she could only eat liquid food and often had trouble sleeping at night. Her body, which was originally strong, also became thin and weak due to the pain. Eight years ago, Yim Chen went to the hospital for a checkup and finally found the cause of the disease that had been troubling her for years, which turned out to be trigeminal neuralgia not toothache. For several years, she took allopathic medicine and her condition improved, but the pain still came on from time to time. Recently, she had a minimally invasive surgery in the neurosurgery department of the provincial hospital, and the pain never came back. ”Many patients have taken the wrong path to see a doctor, mostly after tooth extraction, only to find out that it is not dental disease that triggers facial pain.” The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into. The pain can be caused by talking, brushing teeth or breeze. The minimally invasive procedure of “microvascular decompression” is an effective method to relieve this pain. Because of the similarity of the pain, “facial pain” is often mistaken for “toothache”. In fact, unlike toothache which lasts for a long time, trigeminal neuralgia attacks are lightning-like, paroxysmal and severe pain. Yuan Sutao suggested that at the beginning of the attack, if the cause is not clear after dental examination, or if the toothache does not improve after taking medication, and no relevant inflammation such as tooth decay or periodontitis is found, it may be caused by trigeminal neuralgia, and patients should go to the neurology department of the hospital for examination as soon as possible. In addition, we should pay attention to nutritional regularity in diet, choose soft, easy to chew and light food, and never eat fried, spicy and other stimulating food.