How to Protect Your Facial Nerve. Protecting your facial nerve means safeguarding your face and head from illness or a traumatic injury. Inflammation, swelling, and injury can cause damage to the ...

Facial nerve paralysis describes weakness in the muscles on one or both sides of your face that causes an inability to smile, blink, or control other facial movements. It happens when the facial ...

That type of nerve damage comes on quickly — usually over hours, sometimes days. This woman described a process that took months. The two M.R.I.s proved she hadn’t had a stroke — the most ...

Facial nerve disorders can significantly impact your quality of life, affecting how you speak, eat, drink, and express emotion.A facial nerve disorder results from damage to the nerves controlling ...

Bell's palsy, a nerve condition that causes sudden facial paralysis on one side, affecting up to 30,000 Americans yearly. Learn the symptoms, treatments ...

Facial nerve decompression is a surgical procedure in which the abnormal compression on the facial nerve is relieved to minimize damage to the nerve fibers in facial paralysis and Bell’s palsy.

Leprosy is the result of a chronic granulomatous immune response to infection of the skin and nerves with Mycobacterium leprae.The accruing nerve damage affects the sensory, motor and autonomic ...

Nerves are bundles of nerve fibers that act as communication lines of our system, transmitting signals between the brain and ...

Damage to the facial nerve may result in twitching, weakness, or paralysis of the face, in dryness of the eye or the mouth, or in disturbance of taste. There is: ...

Complete recovery after facial nerve decompression surgery depends on extent of nerve damage and some patients are left with some degree of permanent facial weakness. Published on Jan 29, 2019 ...

KEVIN DE BRUYNE has revealed that nerve damage has left him with no feeling in the left side of his face. The star, 29, suffered his facial injuries during Manchester City’s Champions League ...