Facial nerve paralysis

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Management of the patient with facial paralysis challenges both the diagnostic skill and the clinical judgment of the clinician. In part 1 of this two-part article (June 1984, page 219), Dr Olsen emphasized the key points of accurate evaluation and discussed idiopathic paralysis, or Bell's palsy, the most common type of facial paralysis. In part 2 he examines several of the non-Bell's causes, giving illustrative case reports.