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Symptoms of disease - pain in the jaw

Jaw - any of the two jaws: the upper or lower. Jaw form the basis for the teeth and is a place of their attachment to the oral cavity.
The upper jaw (maxilla, plural maxillae) - steam room bone, which consists of the body and four divisions: the frontal, zygomatic, palatal and alveolar, the lower the free edge of which is a alveolar arc, bearing dental alveoli. In the body of the bones is located maxillary (maxillary) sinus. The upper jaw participates in the formation of eyes and nasal cavity and the hard palate.



Which diseases there is pain in the jaw

1. Fractures of the upper or lower jaw. As a result of a strong blow in the face, an accident may occur fracture of the upper or lower jaw. The result of severe head injury can be a fracture of the upper and lower jaws at the same time.
The fracture of the jaw is a violation of the integrity of the jaw bone under the influence of mechanical exposure.
Fractures can be direct and reflected, single and multiple, with the shift and without displacement of fragments of bone, open and closed, comminuted.
For all types of fractures of the jaws of the characters of symptoms such as pain in the jaw, bleeding, swelling of soft tissues of the face, the functions of the chewing.

2. Osteomyelitis of jaw - infectious inflammatory process affecting all elements of the jaw bone. Distinguish hematogenous osteomyelitis, traumatic and odontogenic (the most common type).
The reason odontogenic osteomyelitis - the microflora of the root canal and periodontal pockets (streptococci, staphylococci, anaerobes).
In acute osteomyelitis spontaneous throbbing pain in the jaw, headache, chills, temperature up to 40 degrees. Found the affected tooth with necrotic slurry (possibly with seal); he and adjoining teeth sharply painful, mobile. Puffy asymmetrical face. Transitional fold hyperemic and smoothed. Lymph nodes are enlarged, painful. Osteomyelitis is often complicated by abscess, phlegmon. In blood leukocytosis; ESR increased. The General condition of varying degrees of severity.

3. Dysfunction of the temporomandibular-jaw joint causes pain not only in the field of joint (in front of the ear), but also in the area of the forehead, temple, and the lower jaw, cheek. She is accompanied by clicking or restriction of movement of the joint. The pain is often associated with myofascial syndrome in the chewing muscles, abnormal bite, inflammatory or degenerative changes in the joints. Examination reveals a local tenderness, crepitus when you open your mouth, wrong position of the articular surfaces and limit the movements of the lower jaw.

4. Cranial neuralgia is the result of a sudden and very strong impulses from the affected cranial nerve. Most often confronted with the neuralgia of the trigeminal nerve. It is characterized by one-sided suddenly advancing bouts of acute, twitch, burning, stabbing pain in the area of innervation of one or several branches of the trigeminal nerve. The pain, there is rarely a night and never felt behind the ear, and in the lower part of the lower jaw.

5. Neuralgia of upper laryngeal nerve is characterized by paroxysmal unilateral or bilateral pain in the throat (usually at the level of the top of the thyroid cartilage or sublingual bone) and the angle of the jaw, referred in the eyes, ears, chest and girdle and accompanied by a hiccup, hyperptyalism, cough. Pain are provoked by swallowing, yawning, cough, blowing nose, movements of the head. Effective carbamazepine (Finlepsin) and local anesthesia in the zone of hypothyroid membrane. In resistant cases resort to the intersection of nerve.

6. Neuralgia glossopharyngeal nerve is extremely rare. It is manifested paroxysmal pain, which usually starts with the root of the tongue and tonsils, and applies to the throat, ear, the angle of the jaw, and sometimes gives the eyeball, at least - in the neck. Pain attacks arise suddenly if movements of the tongue or throat, during a conversation or a meal (swallowing), lasting from 1 to 3 minutes, and always one-sided, shooting, burning. During the attack frequent dry mouth, dry cough, and after him - reinforced ptyalism. Typical posture of patients with inclination of the head to the side pain, tenderness on palpation point for the angle of the jaw

7. Neuralgia of the auricle of the node is manifested burning paroxysmal pain (duration of attack up to 1 hour) in the temporal area in front of the external acoustic meatus, often irradiating in the lower jaw, chin, sometimes the teeth. Pain attack is accompanied by hyperptyalism and crack sounds in the ear (symptom is caused by periodic spasms of the auditory tube, caused by the reduction of muscles, stressing the auditory tube, which Innervate the fibers of the auricle of the node) on the side of the pathological process. The pain may provoke the reception of hot or cold food, cold face. Is characterized by pain when pressure is applied at the point between the external auditory passage and TMJ.

8. When the lesion (arteritis) facial artery pain is passionate nature, begins in the bottom (from the chin to the angle of the jaw) or upper (in the region of the upper lip, the wings of the nose and nasolabial folds) of the jaw. A final point irradiation pain - the median corner of the eye. A typical symptom is the presence of illness at the place of the inflection facial artery through the base of the lower jaw.

9. Inflammation of Carotid artery is characterized by bouts of pain, lasting several hours and localized in the upper part of the neck, face, ear, jaw, teeth. This pain can provoke palpation of the common carotid artery near the bifurcation. In most cases inflammation of Carotid artery, apparently, is a variant of a migraine. Sometimes similar symptoms occur in temporal region arteritis, bundle carotid artery or displacement of its tumor.

10. Odontogenic pain. Pain in the region of the upper and lower jaw often arises as a result of irritation nerves in caries, diseases of the dental pulp, periodontal abscesses. It increases at night, has a pulsating character and are often accompanied by local painfulness in the area of the tooth root. Sometimes chronic facial pain are caused by limited osteomyelitis of jaw with the formation of microabscesses. After the extraction of the teeth or dental surgery may occur trigeminal neuropathy, manifested by decrease of sensitivity in the lower lip, the weakness of the masticatory muscles.

11. Osteoplastic sarcoma is 22% of malignant non-epithelial tumors of the jaws. Can manifest deformity of the affected bones, facial pain, moderate painful on palpation. Sometimes, before the pain occurs numbness, violation of sensitivity in the output infraorbital or chin nerves.

12. Red ear syndrome is characterized by intense burning pain in the ear, sometimes irradiate in the forehead, neck, lower jaw, accompanied by reddening of the skin and increase in the temperature of the auricle (as a result of the expansion of the cutaneous blood vessels). The cause of the syndrome can be cervical spondylosis, accompanied by the irritation of the third cervical spine dysfunction of the temporomandibular-jaw joint, acute neuralgia glossopharyngeal nerve, the defeat of the thalamus, idiopathic hypersensitivity pain fibers to heat.



Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the jaw

  • Dentist
  • Surgeon
  • Neurologist


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