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Our Facial Nerve Clinic comprises a team of physicians who have expertise in the treatment of facial nerve injuries and other facial nerve disorders. As one of the largest tertiary care centers in the ...

Vestibular schwannomas, or acoustic neuromas, are noncancerous tumors that develop on the nerve leading from the inner ear to ...

When the facial nerve is damaged because of infection, injury, tumor or other reasons, these functions can be diminished or completely lost. Damage may result in twitching or spasms, facial weakness ...

Bell's palsy is caused by damage or trauma to the facial nerve (also known as the seventh cranial nerve), causing a disruption of the nerve signal somewhere between its origin at the brain stem ...

There is little warning before the paralysis. There may be tingling and peculiar pricking sensations over one half of the ...

A competing hypothesis states that HFS is due to abnormality of the facial motor nucleus in the brainstem. Injuries to the facial nerve can also result in secondary HFS. For example, patients who have ...

It is also why facial nerve disorders and injuries can be devastating. These conditions are typically treated with nerve tissue taken from elsewhere in a patient's body, known as autografts.

Facial nerve schwannomas (FNS) are rare tumors that arise from the Schwann cells, which are responsible for the myelin sheath surrounding nerves. These tumors can occur anywhere along the facial ...