Facial Nerve

Facial paralysis that appears within hours can be a traumatic event, and one that requires medical investigation. For 76-year-old Tal, the struggle began one morning when he woke up and discovered that half of his face was paralyzed. After months of pain and an inability to blink, and after drug treatment that he said did not bring improvement, he turned to photobiomodulation — the use of...

A mother of children who was injured in Arad by an Iranian missile strike underwent a delicate microsurgical procedure to reconstruct facial nerves in an attempt to restore her facial symmetry and the ability to close her eye.