Debta, F: Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia (T.N..) is a sudden, severe, brief, recurrent stabbing pain in the distribution of the trigeminal nerve which every dental surgeon is likely to encounter in his/her clinical practice. T.N. is best symptomatically treated by medical treatment out of which carbamazepine (CBZ) thought to be a diagnostic drug marker of trigeminal neuralgia but CBZ has often undesirable side effects & sometimes ineffective, limiting its usage, thus search for more effective drug with lesser side effect is still on. Recently two newer anticonvuls ...