[Therapeutic considerations in maxillofacial neuralgia].

In the presence of idiopathic and neuralgiform pain in the trigeminal area, differential diagnosis will have to eliminate sinus disturbances, toothache, TMJ trouble and neuromuscular spasms derived thereof. Neuralgias unconnected to these causes are treated by electrobiological testing of the neurotoxins. Symptomatic immediate treatment was formerly done by enneural injection. Now, a special technique of auriculoacupuncture has been successful for some time.