A clinical-functional evaluation of facial paralysis.

ABSTRACT

A clinical-functional evaluation of facial paralysis is presented in order to suggest a uniform and standard classification. The outcome of this disease treated with various modalities may be similarly appraised by all medical disciplines. A score of 50 per cent is allotted to each of the main divisions of the facial nerve, namely, eye and oral commissure; 15 per cent is given to the symmetry in repose of the eye and oral commissure respectively; and 35 per cent to the sphincteric function of the orbicularis oculus and oris respectively.