A toothache is not a disease, it hurts. But what looks like a toothache may actually be trigeminal neuralgia at work. Some patients with toothache directly to the dentist to extract the tooth, after the extraction of the suffering continues to hurt, only to realize that the trigeminal neuralgia caused the trouble. How can you effectively separate trigeminal neuralgia from toothache? Toothache trigeminal neuralgia age and gender can be issued at any age and there is no gender difference generally over 40 years of age more women than men medical history recent periodontitis, caries history no but trigeminal pain will cause toothache pain pain nature of persistent throbbing pain or swelling paroxysmal stabbing pain, burning pain, lightning-like night performance night aggravation generally lighter at night worse more painful triggering factors teeth sensitive to hot and cold can trigger the pain when talking, washing face, shaving easily Trigger point no or less obvious trigger pain often have few check gums have redness and swelling no patients can be based on the following methods of simple self-identification: 1, if you take ordinary painkillers after the toothache does not get better can be ruled out periodontal and other inflammatory pain but nerve pain; 2, in the checkup process if you do not find caries, periodontitis and other inflammatory disease teeth are still in pain is likely to be trigeminal neuralgia caused by 3, from the pain performance point of view toothache will generally show persistent pain and typical trigeminal neuralgia in the onset of a flash of intense pain usually lasts a few seconds a few episodes a day to make people unbearable. Some people ask if trigeminal neuralgia can be cured. Many people have gone years without a cure. The answer is yes. The reason for not being cured is because you didn’t go to the right place, the right hospital, or the right doctor. For trigeminal neuralgia, microtubular decompression surgery has achieved good results in treating trigeminal neuralgia, with tens of thousands of cases treated, making it a good choice for trigeminal neuralgia treatment.