Medical Conditions – Facial pain

Facial pain and numbness
  • Conditions related to facial pain and numbness?

  • Stroke

  • Giant cell arthritis

  • Acromegaly

  • Bells Palsy (Facial Palsy)

  • Bulbar Palsy

  • Mouth/Dental Abscess

  • Occipital Neuralgia

  • Sialadenitis (Salivary stone)

  • Sinus Pain (sinusitis)

  • Tardive dyskinesia

  • Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders

  • Trigeminal Neuralgia

  • Others:

Syndromes
  • Syndromes related to facial pain and numbness?

  • Hunt’s Syndrome (Ramsay-Hunt syndrome)

  • Moebius syndrome (eyes do not move from side-to-side, facial paralysis or weakness affecting at least one but usually both sides of the face)

  • Parry-Romberg syndrome – facial muscles are thin not weak ,slow progressive shrinkage (atrophy) of the skin and soft tissues of half of the face (hemifacial atrophy).