Bell’s Palsy: Symptoms Preceding and Accompanying the Facial Paresis

Table 1

Severity of facial palsy and symptomatology.

Symptom	Correlation coefficient	value
Dysgeusia	−0.137	0.014
Retroauricular pain	0.156	0.005
Aural fullness	0.168	0.002
Xerostomia	0.0191	0.001

Correlation between symptoms and severity of facial paralysis at the onset according to the Kendall Tau coefficient test.