if you are suffering from trigeminal neuralgia you have my sincerest sympathy. it is an extremely painful condition. trigeminal neuralgia (also called tic douloureux) is a very common cause of facial pain and causes severe attacks of intense facial pain often with a visible muscle spasm. trigeminal neuralgia (tn) usually is caused by compression of the root of the trigeminal nerve which is a big nerve with three branches that supplies the face with sensation and movement. tn attacks usually come and go. patients may go through a period of weeks or months where they have many attacks and then these may clear up for no reason before coming back months later. tn usually is treated with medication. surgical therapy has not been well-studied for this condition. of the surgeries that are currently used to treat tn none of them are "oral surgeries. " the most common surgery for example involves going through the skull. i hope this helps!
is there an oral surgey used to treat trigeminal neuralgia?