1. Involvement of the trigeminal nerve can cause numbness of the face. 2. All sensory fibers from these nerves terminate in the trigeminal nucleus. 3. Many of these patients were our trigeminal neuralgia type 2 patients. 4. The North Central Texas chapter of the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association meets monthly. 5. Trigeminal pain has a similar presentation in patients with and without MS.6. The trigeminal nerve senses texture, pain, and temperature of food. 7. The subject of atypical trigeminal neuralgia is considered problematic even among experts. 8. The trigeminal musculature and the depressor mandibulae has been observed. 9. A second, the trigeminal nerve, senses pain, temperature and touch. 10. Yet trigeminal neuralgia is still not widely understood, even among some physicians.
