Conditions

Face pain may be dull, throbbing or intense, stabbing discomfort in one or both sides of the face or forehead. Pain that originates in the face may be caused by a nerve disorder, an injury, or an infection in a structure of the face. Face pain may also begin elsewhere in the body. Sometimes face pain occurs for no known reason. Common causes include injury to the face, abscessed tooth and sinusitis, which may be easily diagnosed and treated by your doctor or dentist. Conditions causing facial pain that may require specialist care: Facial Neuralgias Trigeminal Neuralgia Atypical Facial Pain or Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain Anaesthesia Dolorosa Other Cranial Neuralgias Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia Nervus Intermedius or Geniculate Neuralgia Vagal or Superior Laryngeal Neuralgia Sphenopalatine Neuralgia Vidian Neuralgia Occipital Neuralgia Cervicogenic Headache Post-Herpetic Neuralgia Pain due to Tumours of the Head and Neck Dental Disorders Temporo-Mandibular Joint Dysfunction Myofascial Pain Syndrome Teeth (caries, periodontal disease, pulpitis, periapical periodontitis, lateral periodontitis, pericoronitis) Mucosal origin (infections, vesiculo-bullous disorders, white patches and oral cancer, stomatitis) Bruxism Salivary Gland Disease Atypical Odontalgia Burning Mouth Syndrome or Oral Dysaesthesia Neuralgia-Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosis Headache syndromes Classic migraine and migraine variants Cluster headache SUNCT and SUNA Temporal Arteritis Muscle tension headache Post-traumatic headache Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania Ocular and Peri-ocular pain Tolosa-Hunt syndrome Orbital Apex syndrome Cavernous Sinus syndrome Parasellar syndrome Angle Closure Glaucoma Optic Neuritis Orbital Cellulitis Pain due to Ear disease Ramsay Hunt syndrome Otitis Externa and Interna Mastoiditis Disorders of the Midface Chronic paranasal sinusitis Related disorders Hemifacial spasm