What are the consequences of untreated facial muscle spasm? Facial spasm patients tend to be younger and younger. Usually the onset of facial myospasm patients do not feel pain, the initial patients do not affect normal life in the case of more than not to be treated, with the aggravation of symptoms, what are the consequences of not treating facial myospasm? 1, facial muscle spasm refers to the facial nerve innervated muscle episodes of painless clonic contraction, often starting with the orbicularis oculi muscle then spread to the orbicularis oris muscle, gradually aggravated within a few months to a few years. In severe cases, the entire facial muscle and the ipsilateral cervical muscle can be spasmed. It is reduced when quiet, aggravated by emotional tension, fatigue and excitement, and disappears during sleep. 2, facial muscle spasm patients due to some kind of compression of facial nerve conduction pathological interference leading to the occurrence of the disease, most patients with facial muscle spasm are vascular cross compression of nerves, such as the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, anterior inferior cerebellar artery, vertebral nerve artery compression and other cases, occasionally also due to aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations or brain tumors and other facial nerve root compression caused by facial muscle spasm attacks, if not treated in a timely manner, or may lead to other functional disorders. 3, medical research shows that the most common cause of facial muscle spasm is due to compression of the facial nerve root by blood vessels. The facial muscles on the left and right sides are controlled by two facial nerves, and the two nerves are rarely compressed at the same time, so facial muscle spasm is often unilateral, for example, in the early days, one side of the eyelid jumping, after the seriousness of not only the eyelid jumping, the same side of the mouth will also follow the twitching, and even some people have ipsilateral tinnitus, jaw twitching, but rarely appear both sides jumping. Facial muscle spasm is generally caused by the facial nerve. Long-term pulsation of the blood vessels will lead to demyelination of the facial nerve root, which is equivalent to the destruction of the insulation layer of the electric wire, causing leakage of the facial nerve, which will manifest as facial twitching. If left untreated for a long time, it leads to long-term damage to the facial nerve. Facial muscle spasm treatment methods: 1, drug therapy: common drug therapy for carbamazepine and phenytoin sodium: carbamazepine: 24h ~ 48h after taking the drug that has analgesic effect. Carbamazepine pain relief quickly, only to play a temporary control and relief of pain, long-term use of drugs may have certain side effects, will appear dizziness, weakness and other phenomena. Phenytoin sodium: this drug has a slow onset of action and controls the disease more stably, but the drug does not play a complete cure effect. 2, surgical treatment: microvascular decompression, generally caused by the majority of the causes of this disease is the intracranial vascular compression of nerves, can be found through microvascular decompression of the facial nerve root compression of the blood vessels will be free, between the blood vessels and the nerve pad into the Teflon cotton ball, in the elimination of the cause of facial muscle spasm after the muscle spasm will immediately or gradually stop. Microvascular decompression has become the treatment of choice for facial myospasm, with a cure rate of over 98%. We do recommend surgical treatment for this method. Surgical treatment not only relieves the symptoms of facial myospasm, but also cures the root of facial myospasm. It is an excellent way to treat facial muscle spasm because of the fast recovery and few complications.