The term "atypical facial pain" has been criticized.

The features of atypical facial pain can be considered according to the Socrates pain assessment method (see table).

There is considerable symptom overlap between atypical facial pain and temporomandibular joint dysfunction.

Some consider BMS to be a variant of atypical facial pain.

Surgical procedures are not indicated for Atypical Facial Pain."

Atypical facial pain.

Some sources consider atypical odontalgia to be a sub-type of atypical facial pain, although others treat them as the same entity.

Treatment of TMD may then significantly reduce symptoms of otalgia and tinnitus, as well as atypical facial pain.

The lesion consists of ischemic osteonecrosis found in the jaws of patients with symptoms of atypical facial pain or trigeminal neuralgia.

Persistent idiopathic facial pain (the IHS's perferred term for atypical facial pain)

There are presently no accepted medical tests which consistently discriminate between facial pain syndromes or differentiate Atypical Facial Pain from other syndromes.

TMD is considered by some to be one of the 4 major symptom complexes in chronic orofacial pain, along with burning mouth syndrome, atypical facial pain and atypical odontalgia.

More recently, BMS has been described as one of the 4 recognizable symptom complexes of chronic facial pain, along with atypical facial pain, temporomandibular joint dysfunction and atypical odontalgia.

The management of treatment-resistant depression in disorders on the interface of psychiatry and medicine: fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, atypical facial pain, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

This last category (TN7) was termed atypical facial pain, although many cases that would otherwise be traditionally labelled as AFP would fall into other groups in this classification, especially into the second group.

The term "Atypical Facial Pain" is sometimes assigned to pain which crosses the mid-line of the face or otherwise does not conform to expected boundaries of nerve distributions or characteristics of validated medical entities.

Due to the variability and imprecision of their pain symptoms, ATN or Atypical Odontalgia patients may be misdiagnosed with "Atypical Facial Pain" or "hypochondriasis", both of which are considered problematic by many practitioners.

As noted in material published by the [US] National Pain Foundation: "Atypical Facial Pain is a confusing term and should never be used to describe patients with trigeminal neuralgia or trigeminal neuropathic pain.

Atypical Facial Pain (AFP, also termed atypical facial neuralgia, chronic idiopathic facial pain, or psychogenic facial pain), is a type of chronic facial pain which does not fulfill any other diagnosis.

Moreover, it involves the diagnosis and follow-up of pre-malignant lesions of the oral cavity, like leukoplakia or erythroplakia and of chronic and acute pain conditions such as paroxysmal neuralgias, continuous neuralgias, myofascial pain, atypical facial pain, autonomic cephalalgias, headaches and migraines.