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Expert Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia at Mayo Clinic
At Mayo Clinic, you’ll have a team of experts in trigeminal neuralgia (TN) focused on providing you with an accurate diagnosis and innovative medical and surgical treatments to provide relief from pain. Whether you are newly diagnosed, are not satisfied with your current pain control, have side effects from treatment, or a prior surgical treatment failed, we may have an innovative solution for you.
Our experts offer a comprehensive range of treatment options, including the innovative Teflon-free microvascular decompression surgery. With this procedure we avoid placing foreign material inside the head, while effectively treating the cause of TN.
If you were told you have “untreatable” facial pain, we may be able to treat it with neuromodulation or stimulation techniques.
Treatment starts with accurate diagnosis.
We use specialized neuroradiology diagnostic tests, including 3-dimensional reconstruction of the trigeminal nerve, to identify problems like subtle vascular compression. We also offer unique diagnostic studies that include both CT scans and MRIs to evaluate treatment failures or recurrences of pain.
A team of experts, focused on you.
At Mayo Clinic, we bring together physicians from many specialties. Physicians in headache and general neurology, neurosurgeons with expertise in TN surgery and neuromodulation, radiation oncologists, pain specialists, and psychologists all work collaboratively to provide the best treatment for you.
Several Mayo physicians have leadership roles with the Facial Pain Association, and our experts frequently provide education and information at trigeminal neuralgia support groups and conferences across the country and internationally.
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