Diseases of the soft structures of the teeth and their treatment; a text-book for students and practitioners . types of pain in and about the .;_) DISEASES OF THE DENTAL PULP teeth are more often observed. Neuralgia should !><• looked uponas a neuropathic disturbance t* nerve fibers without having anydirect connection with an organic disease. True trifacial neuralgia,sometimes referred to as tic douloureux, FotherguTs disease or pro-sopalgia, manifests itself l>.\ a sudden paroxysmal pain of a sharp,darting, stabbing character, which is most common along the courseof ilif supra- and t


Diseases of the soft structures of the teeth and their treatment; a text-book for students and practitioners . types of pain in and about the .;_) DISEASES OF THE DENTAL PULP teeth are more often observed. Neuralgia should !><• looked uponas a neuropathic disturbance t* nerve fibers without having anydirect connection with an organic disease. True trifacial neuralgia,sometimes referred to as tic douloureux, FotherguTs disease or pro-sopalgia, manifests itself l>.\ a sudden paroxysmal pain of a sharp,darting, stabbing character, which is most common along the courseof ilif supra- and the infraorbital branches of the left side of theface with increased lacrimation, slight edema, gray eyebrows andconvulsive twitches and tenderness at the intra- and supraorbitalforamina (points douloureux), as well as along the course of thenerve distribution. It is most often restricted to women of middleage in which neuropathic disturbances or a general disease, prin-cipally anemia or hyperesthesia of pregnancy, play predominantroles. Neuralgia should be differentiated from neuritis, i an. T> pica! position of hands in tic douloureux. I Mayrhofer.) inflammation of a nerve trunk, prima rely characterized by continu-ous pain, impaired sensation, motor paralysis and atrophy. a result of pressure from a cerebral i., a neuroma, often leads to a fault} diagnosis of patients suffer the loss of one tooth after another in the vainsearch for the real cause. After the sacrifice of the teeth the dentistor physician maj wake up to the fact that the painful disorder is of a central origin, and that a grave mi-take has been made. Neuralgiform types of pain in and about the teeth of an obscurecharacter are occasionally met with. The true cause of the painm;i\ he located anywhere between the origin of the nerve in thebrain and it - end-organs, , in our case, in the teeth or within theirimmediate surroundings; however, the sensation of pain i^ only O


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