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ABSTRACT This study looked at the association between serotonin transporter gene variants and with chronic persistent tension-type facial pain. Known as triallelic 5-HTTLPR, the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region and its rs25531 polymorphism have been linked to alterations in pain perception.
Patients often present to otolaryngologists with chronic facial pain, presumed to be of sinus origin despite normal nasal endoscopy and sinus CT. This pain has increasingly been recognized as being of neurological origin with one of the commonest underlying causes being mid-facial segmental tension-type pain (MFP) which is a version…
Patients often present to otolaryngologists with facial pain which has been ascribed to sinusitis in spite of normal nasal endoscopy and sinus CT. This pain has increasingly been recognized as being of neurological origin.
Not all chronic facial pain is chronic sinusitis. In this interview, Mr Adrian Agius, ENT surgeon discusses the differential diagnosis and management of chronic facial pain, highlighting the fact that a significant proportion of chronic facial pain has a neurological cause and can be managed with appropriate treatment.
ENT surgeons (or Otolaryngologists) have long been involved in facial cosmetic surgery. The nose is a central feature of the face and its modification is known as rhinoplasty.