Bell's Palsy: Learn About the Symptoms, Treatment and Recovery Process

https://www.universityhealthsystem.com/ ► Dr. Christine Burke Taylor, facial plastics reconstructive surgeon and ENT at University Hospital, explains that Bell's palsy is believed to be caused by a virus that has probably been sitting in your system for a while and it usually gets reactivated by a stressor or by an illness. The virus causes inflammation near the ear, which presses on the facial nerve, rendering half of the face completely or partially paralyzed. Dr. Taylor says "approximately 70 percent of patients will recover in three to six months. That's the typical course. Twenty to thirty percent of patients will have some sort of deficit after that three- to six-month period. It can range from not recovering at all to recovering incompletely with a little bit of weakness.”

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