- Name 5 muscles which are affected and list its actions
- Frontalis
- Action: Eyebrow elevation
- Orbicularis Oculi
- Action: Closing of the eyelids
- Orbicularis Oris
- Action: Closing of the mouth
- Buccinator
- Action: Lateral pulling of the mouth corners
- Platysma
- Action: Depression of the mandible
- Action: Depression of the mandible
- Frontalis
- Describe the mechanism of his muscle weakness
- Bell's palsy refers to the paralysis of one side of the face and this happens due to a damage in the facial nerve. When one is suffering from this, they do not have control of their muscles, causing it to droop, making it harder to perform daily tasks as it affects the way you eat with the food falling at one side of the mouth, speak with the mouth unable to open one side making the person speak incoherent words, drink, just like eating, is affected by the other side of the mouth being paralyzed, and even blink as the person will lose control of their eyelid.
- Bell's palsy refers to the paralysis of one side of the face and this happens due to a damage in the facial nerve. When one is suffering from this, they do not have control of their muscles, causing it to droop, making it harder to perform daily tasks as it affects the way you eat with the food falling at one side of the mouth, speak with the mouth unable to open one side making the person speak incoherent words, drink, just like eating, is affected by the other side of the mouth being paralyzed, and even blink as the person will lose control of their eyelid.
- What other symptoms could the patient exhibit as a result of facial muscle weakness?
- Dry eyes because of muscle paralysis in the eyelid
- Dry mouth & loss of taste
- Sound sensitivity at the affected ear
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