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Frey syndrome, also known as gustatory sweating or auriculotemporal syndrome, consists of sweating and flushing of the skin in the preauricular area during mastication. Occasionally, a patient may also experience pain in the region. The onset of symptoms is quite variable. Duphenix first described the syndrome in literature in 1757, followed by Baillarger in 1853, and again by Weber in 1897; however, the pathophysiology of the syndrome remained uncertain until 1923 [1–3]. The syndrome itself was named after a Polish neurologist at the University of Warsaw, Lucja Frey, who correctly identified the autonomic innervation of the parotid gland via the auriculotemporal nerve while caring for a patient who sustained a traumatic gunshot wound to the parotid region and exhibited symptoms of gustatory sweating while eating [4].

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    Michael D. Chambers DMD, MD & William Chung DDS, MD

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Chambers, M.D., Chung, W. (2017). Frey Syndrome. In: Bouloux, G. (eds) Complications of Temporomandibular Joint Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51241-9_6

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