Facial Nerve Disorders: Causes, Symptoms & Recovery

VII. Facial Nerve

* Bell's palsy

* Idiopathic

* Most common

* Unilateral

* Rapid onset (over hours)

* Most recover within a few weeks

* Ramsay-Hunt syndrome

* Complication of herpes zoster oticus

* Facial palsy

* Otic vesicles

* Other causes

* Acoustic neuroma

* Lyme disease

* Sarcoidosis

* Diabetes