Abstract
Summary Sensory re-education is a unique treatment modality that is useful in rehabilitating a patient with a peripheral trigeminal nerve injury. The CNS possesses seemingly infinite capacity to recover from the effects of a peripheral nerve injury when subjected to the learning opportunities presented by a regimen of sensory re-education exercises.53 Sensory re-education has been demonstrated to enhance the functional recovery of patients with hand injuries. Reports indicate that recovery of sensory function in the oral cavity and face can be improved by similar sensory exercises regimen if applied properly at the appropriate time. Future research should be directed toward developing better methods of evaluating sensory function that integrate subjective and objective data, structuring more effective programs of general sensory re-education specific to the face and mouth, understanding the relationship between taste reception by chorda tympani fibers in the tongue and central taste perception, and initiating a taste reeducation program that can assist patients who are disturbed by lost or abnormal taste sensation.
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