Face pain

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