is facial falcy curable? if it is curable,if it happened to a person
in his childhood(20 years back)then also is it curable? is it curable
by medicines or
is it require surgery.i need the details of medicines as well as the
names famous neurologists at present in india.

---

Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 02 Jun 2003 10:02 PDT

I cannot find any medical references to 'falcy'.

Are you perhaps looking for information about facial palsy, which
involves paralysis of the muscles of the face? If so, you may want to
reconsider the price you've set on this question, or greatly limit the
scope of the question so that it can be answered with a very small
amount of data.

Here are the Google Answers pricing guidelines:

http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html

Several years ago I had a bout with "Bell's Palsy". An oversimplified
explanation of what it is: inflamation between the 6th and 7th (neck)
vertabre, damaging the nerve there, which causes ONE SIDE (left or
right) of the face to be paralysed. If a course of steroids is started
right away, as in _immediately_, the symptoms will go away. My Doctor
told me the cause of Bell's Palsy is unknown, but he advised me to
stay out of wind for some reason. People that have had a Bell's Palsy
occurance have a higher likelyhood of another occurance... more than
those that have never had it. Indeed, I have had it twice. Bell's
Palsy, no matter how fast you catch it, does leave some loss of
movement after the course of steroids is finished, however in my case,
thankfully, I am the only person that can notice it. My Doctor said he
can tell as well, but my family and friends don't know what to look
for. If left untreated, Bell's Palsy leaves one side of your face
seriously deformed, permanently. I won't go into it here, but it's
very disfiguring. Any time I feel facial tingling and notice a metalic
taste in my mouth, I literally run to the Doctor and get steroids.

I know this isn't what you were hoping to hear, but it's my own
experience.

Bell's Palsy Information Page:
http://www.bellspalsy.ws/nerve.htm

Actually, Bell's as well as other facial palsies are the result of
problems with the seventh cranial nerve, not the seventh spinal nerve
(which exits below the sixth vertebrae).  The seventh cranial nerve,
as it's name implies, originates from the brainstem and courses within
the skull, emerging to innervate (supply) the muscles of the face.

While there are many likely causes of palsies of this nerve (trauma,
infection, tumors, etc), viral infections are thought to play an
important pathological role - in particular herpes zoster infections
(chicken pox and shingles) have been implicated.

Sometimes the damage is permanent, other times complete recovery is
possible.

I would be glad to post a more complete answer describing the various
causes of facial palsies, their treatments, and their prognoses - if
you would like to specify a more particular answer or raise your price
to pay for a complete overview.

synarchy