Open AccessRepeated peripheral alcohol injection is an effective treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia in non-drug compliance patients
Author(s) -
Arunesh Kumar Tiwari,
Amiya Agrawal,
Anjani Kumar Pathak,
A. Patel,
Kopal Goel,
Siddhartha Chandel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
national journal of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-3418
pISSN - 0975-5950
DOI - 10.4103/njms.njms_62_18
Subject(s) - medicine , trigeminal neuralgia , peripheral , anesthesia , alcohol , neurectomy , trigeminal nerve , surgery , complication , biochemistry , chemistry , alternative medicine , pathology
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is an uncommon disorder seen in dental and neurologic practice, which presents with brief lancinating pain in the face, in the area distributed by the trigeminal nerve. The wide ranges of treatments currently used for TN are ample evidence that there is no simple answer to how it should be managed.