In recent years, with the development of medicine and especially the treatment regimen for V-neuralgia resistant to medical treatment that has been used in the past 15 years, including interventional techniques such as: Percutaneous intervention methods (thermocoagulation at the Gasserian ganglion, glycerol injection into the cerebrospinal fluid tank, Gasserian ganglion compression with a balloon), some authors use direct access such as (microsurgical partial resection of main nerve branches, microsurgical decompression of microvascular)

The term primary facial neuralgia describes facial pain that is paroxysmal, episodic, unilateral, and localized to one or more branches of the V nerve. The pathogenesis of this condition remains controversial.