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 ...

What Is This Condition? Imagine someone stabbing your face with a hot knife every time you smile, eat, or feel a breeze .

Trigeminal neuralgia is an ongoing pain condition that affects certain nerves in your face. You might also hear it called “tic douloureux.” It causes sudden and severe pain that some people ...

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 ...

A rare case of Epstein-Barr virus-induced Bell palsy in an 18-year-old highlights the need for EBV testing in sudden facial ...

Facial pain may be the result of a headache or injury. Other causes of facial pain or pain in the face and jaw include nerve conditions, jaw and dental problems, and infections.

For some, about 15 percent of the facial nerve never recovers, and patients are left with facial weakness, asymmetry, facial pain and tightness, and dysfunctional movements. These symptoms have a ...

Facial nerve injuries are often treated with tissue taken from a patient’s body, called autografts. Alternatively, researchers are developing engineered conduits which could potentially be more ...

TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with severe oral commissure droop from facial nerve damage undergoing surgery, botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) treatment helps to alleviate ...

Exosome-Based ExoPTEN Targets Three High-Value Nerve Injury IndicationsTORONTO and HAIFA, Israel, April 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NurExone Biologic Inc. (TSXV: NRX) (OTCQB: NRXBF) (FSE: J90 ...

The ISEV presentation will feature facial nerve regeneration, marking the Company’s third therapeutic indication, alongside its ongoing programs in spinal cord injury and optic nerve regeneration.