Asymmetry of the face is more common in nervous diseases and dental pathologies. Less commonly, the cause of the symptom is trauma, ophthalmological, otolaryngological, congenital diseases. Violation can be static or dynamic, develop due to disorders of innervation, edema, excess or lack of tissue. Determining the cause of asymmetry is carried out using data from general, dental, neurological, otolaryngological examination, radiography, and other imaging techniques. Treatment prior to diagnosis is not indicated.
Muscle weakness is an objective symptom, expressed as a decrease in skeletal muscle strength, or a subjective sensation, described as increased fatigue. The reasons for this phenomenon are extremely diverse and usually include structural damage at any level of signal transmission along the nerve pathways, damage to myoneural synapses, and muscle fibers. Diagnosis is carried out by means of neuroimaging, neurophysiological procedures, laboratory methods. Treatment involves conservative and surgical correction.
Dry mouth (xerostomia) is a subjectively unpleasant sensation of dryness of the mucous membrane, difficulty in eating, speech disorders caused by insufficient saliva secretion. The symptom occurs with lesions of the salivary glands, endocrine and metabolic disorders, pathology of the respiratory, digestive and urinary systems. To establish the degree of xerostomia and find out the causes, sialometry, sialography, and ultrasound are performed. To alleviate unpleasant symptoms, it is recommended to use moisturizing oral fluids, cholinergic drugs.