referred pain(jaw)
Last reviewed 01/2018
Causes of non-dental jaw pain include:
- pain referred from the nose, throat, ear or eye
- neuralgia (such as trigeminal, post-herpetic etc)
- temporomandibular joint pain
- migraine
- cervical disc lesion
- angina pectoris
- cranial arteritis
- intracranial lesion affecting the afferent branch of the trigeminl nerve