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This article provides a brief historical overview of the assessment instruments that have been developed to categorize the severity of disease in patients with facial palsy.

Important advances in the quality of these instruments in discussed.

The modern day instruments that are commonly required for evidenced-based patient assessment are then presented, with emphasis on the level of evidence of the studies that describe these instruments.