This is a 66-year-old female patient who suddenly presented paralysis of the right half of her face compromising the muscles of facial expression of the VII cranial nerve or facial nerve path.
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The patient consulted quickly and was diagnosed with right facial paralysis of Bell, also finding an ulcerative type lesion, rounded of more or less 5 mm in diameter located on the left side of the tongue associated with a mild paralysis.
Prednisolone was immediately formed and cultured. The patient was positive and received a diagnosis of lingual herpes. The patient was ordered to start myofunctional therapy of the facial expression muscles to stimulate the affected cranial nerve.
Approximately at 15 days he began to recover paulatine facial movements lost until achieving complete recovery of facial nerve function at 30 days.
