Orofacial pain following an invasive dental procedure.

Abstract

Like headache, the etiology of orofacial pain is often an enigma. Orofacial pain resulting from invasive dental procedure may cause a patient to present to a neurologist for diagnosis and treatment. The cases presented here were personally seen by the first author, a consulting neurologist; they illustrate the diversity in clinical presentation and the differences between a musculoskeletal and neuropathic origin of pain. Treatment is touched upon, but is neither exhaustive nor evidence based.