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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Jaw pain. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: to determine if acute or chronic.
Why: intermittent pain may suggest trigeminal neuralgia or glossopharyngeal neuralgia.
Why: e.g. lightning quality of pain suggests neuralgia; herpes zoster pain may be burning and have an abnormal increased sensitivity to touch.
Why: e.g. pain increased by chewing often suggests being related to the temporomandibular joint, but it could be related to trigeminal neuralgia or dental caries; trigeminal neuralgia pain may be aggravated by talking, chewing, touching certain trigger areas on the face, cold weather or wind or turning onto pillow; glossopharyngeal neuralgia may be triggered by swallowing, coughing and talking.
Why: may suggest fractured jaw or dislocated jaw.
Why: may suggest sinusitis which can cause referred pain to the jaw.
Why: may indicate cause of jaw pain or possible Actinomycosis infection of the jaw joint which causes localized swelling of the lower jaw.
Why: some medical conditions may affect the temporomandibular joint e.g. osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis; trigeminal neuralgia may be caused by multiple sclerosis, neurosyphilis or tumor of the back of the brain.
Why: may suggest referred pain from dental caries, gingivitis, oral tumors or alveolar abscess.
Why: the basic cause of temporomandibular joint dysfunction is dental malocclusion.
Why: would suggest Herpes Zoster or Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
Why: angina and heart attacks may cause pain which radiates to the left side of the neck and jaw.
Why: e.g. pain felt over the jaw joint and localized to the region of the ear but may radiate forwards to the cheek and even the neck; pain and limitation of jaw movements especially on opening the mouth, clicking and crackling in the jaw joint with movement.
Why: e.g. facial pain and tenderness which may radiate to the jaw, toothache, post-nasal drip nasal obstruction, runny nose, cough, fever, bleeding nose.
Why: e.g. brief paroxysms of excruciating, searing jabs of pain like a burning knife or electric shock over one side of the face, rarely occurs at night.
Why: e.g. headache over the inflamed artery on the temporal area, skin over these arteries may be red, may have pain in the face, jaw and mouth which is characteristically worse with eating, may have a sudden painless visual loss in one eye, generalized limb pains occur in 50% of people.
The following list of conditions have 'Jaw pain' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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