Facial Paralysis Treatment

Facial paralysis is very rare in most of the Europe and America, but it is one of a common disorder in Chinese culture. This kind of disorder usually breeds most in the season of winter, common in fall, and seldom happens in summer. In 153 articles of bibliography of both Western and Eastern field of Facial Paralysis, there are total of 19,900 cases, men has 11,741 cases and women have 8161 cases. In comparison with both men and women, their rate of having this disorder is 1.44 to 1. Comparison with left and right faces, left face has more incidence then right face with their ratio of 1.045 to 1. Seldom, people are suffering this kind of disorder with more then one times. In the 4,056 articles, there are 81 cases (1.99 percent) with people who have the disorder recurrent for two times. In 0.074 percent of the people who has the disorder recurrent for three times. And there is only one case (0.025 percent) with the patient who has the disorder recurrent five times. Chinese Medicine has recognized Facial Paralysis Disorder as early as 100 years BC. There arc only briefs of records can be found in the Emperor Medicine. Throughout the history, Doctors accumulate the experiences and the records of Facial Paralysis Disorder, but disregard the overall analysis. Until the booming of the medical era,, newer technology based experiments have made, and the joint venture between the eastern and western medicine cause the Chinese Medicine with great improvement in treating the Facial Paralysis. Especially, western medicine introduced a variety of ways to analyze and treat the disorder. Such as Depressurization, Suspension, Anastiomosis of Nerve, Muscle Transplantation, Fascia Suspension, and Eyelid Metal Insertion are all capable of providing fine results. Western Medicine even has treated with those patient whose facial paralysis disorder caused by other trauma. The author has 89 cases of facial paralysis during the practice in the University of Nanjing, China. All records were selected from May to January in the year of 1999 and April to June in the year of 2000. The author has accumulated many years of clinical experiences due to most of patients who suffer the disorder are also the experts, teachers, and head doctors in facial paralysis. In result, most of the cases in facial paralysis are capable to achieve 100% recovery. Including in treatments with side effect. At lease all 89 cases were ftdly successful.