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Atypical facial pain is a collective term used for otherwise unclassifiable pain syndromes of the face. It describes mostly unilateral lancinating and burning pain, which is constantly present but fluctuating in intensity and may be accompanied by dys-or paraesthesias over a period of several years. Women are more often affected than men. ⋯ This also holds true for behaviour therapy, which should be the first-line treatment. Any invasive intervention should be avoided. In the differential diagnosis atypical facial pain should be distinguished from cervicogenic or cluster headache, and also from intracranial tumours of the trigeminal nerve or the cerebellar-pontine angle, erosive tumors of the base of the skull, orbitas and nasopharynx.