Trigeminal neuralgia is a common neurosurgical disease among middle-aged and elderly people, and there are about 2.8 million patients with trigeminal neuralgia in China, with about 65,000 new patients each year. It is also known as the “No. 1 pain in the world” because of its severe pain. Patients often choose prescriptions and painkillers to get rid of the pain because they cannot tolerate the pain. In fact, trigeminal neuralgia is not an incurable disease! How to get out of the misunderstanding of seeing a doctor? Trigeminal neuralgia is a relatively common disease among brain neurological diseases, slightly more common in women than in men, and mostly in the elderly. Trigeminal neuralgia is a painful, paroxysmal, knife-like or needle-like pain in the trigeminal nerve distribution area. Each pain episode varies from a few seconds to several minutes. The intermittent period is like normal, and there are no symptoms. However, as time progresses, the intervals are gradually shortened. The condition also gradually worsens and the pain becomes more and more intense. Trigeminal neuralgia is often very much like a toothache. Some patients may think it is a toothache and even have many of their teeth removed, but the pain does not end. We patients with trigeminal neuralgia must distinguish it from a toothache. Toothache is a persistent pain and toothache usually has this kind of caries and gum inflammation so it can be distinguished by going to the dental hospital for diagnosis. Is this pain caused by toothache or trigeminal neuralgia. At the same time, in the past, when information was not developed and medical technology was not mature enough, the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia took many detours and there were many prescriptions, but often some prescriptions did not have a clear effect of this treatment. The scientific treatment of trigeminal neuralgia is only some conservative treatment and some surgical treatment. Therefore, we still suggest that patients with trigeminal neuralgia should go to the hospital in time to take some formal treatment methods. The first conservative treatment is medication, such as carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine and so on. For the lighter symptoms of pre-trigeminal neuralgia is still very effective, then if the effect of some drugs is not good, or drug treatment has no effect, can not continue to suppress the condition of patients, you can take further treatment, for example, can do radiofrequency, Gamma knife. This type of but these methods, are some of the methods of destruction of nerves. So they are not recommended either. Currently, the best method for treating trigeminal neuralgia is microvascular decompression, which has been found to be caused by vascular compression in more than 80% of patients with trigeminal neuralgia. The effect of microvascular decompression surgery is still very reliable, and the chance of recurrence is very, very low, and is a preferred treatment method.