Summary:
Face pain may be dull and throbbing or an intense, stabbing discomfort in the face or forehead. It can occur in one or both sides.
Symptoms:
- Abscessed tooth (ongoing throbbing pain on one side of the lower face that gets worse with eating or touching)
- Cluster headache
- Herpes zoster (shingles) or herpes simplex (cold sores) infection
- Injury to the face
- Migraine
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Sinusitis or sinus infection (dull pain and tenderness around the eyes and cheekbones that gets worse when you bend forward)
- Tic douloureux
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction syndrome