Examination of the Face
Examine the face before a close-up mirror using a secondary mirror as required.
1. Examine the texture of the facial skin. Note any recent growth, bleeding points, long unhealed sores, or any painful swollen areas on the entire face. These abnormalities indicate skin growth possibilities, cancerous or benign.
2. Observe any involuntary movement of the face, eyes or mouth, note any difference in motion between sides of the
Fig. 19. The face is our most important human feature, and is the reason for existence of the rest of the body. It has its own diseases and difficulties found in no other region of the body.
face during facial movements; raise the eyebrows, squint the eyes, bare the teeth widely as in smiling, pucker the lips in a whistling motion. Such findings may indicate tics or facial paralysis.
3. By placing two mirrors at right angles, mirror the face so that the left side of the face is a mirror of the right. Difference between the right side of the face and left side, immediately seen show any facial deformity or asymmetry.