Clinician - Graded Electronic Facial Paralysis Assessment

www.PRSJournal.com 223e Comprehensive, objective assessment of facial harmony and function in patients suffering from facial movement disorders has eluded clinicians for decades. In the modern era of evidence-based practice, quantitative, rigorously validated outcomes measures are essential to gauge severity of disease, to monitor progression over time, and to determine the effectiveness of different interventions. To date, physicians who treat these conditions often rely on subjective descriptions and crude scales of facial anatomical features and function, which precludes efficient communication with other physicians and severely hampers the advancement of treatment techniques by preventing statistical analysis of outcomes. Even among facial reanimation experts, parameters