Abstract

Konstantinos Michalakis

Bell’s palsy is a very common neurologic disorder, first described by Sir Charles Bell. Bell’s palsy is a form of abrupt, unilateral (95%), peripheral facial paresis or paralysis, resulting from damage to the 7th cranial nerve, resulting from compressive, traumatic, infective, inflammatory or metabolic abnormalities. Symptoms include one-sided facial paralysis, pain in the mastoid region, tearing, drooling, numbness, stiffness, hypersensitivity to sound in the affected ear