Objective: Considering the social communication problems this situation will cause, we studied the relationship between facial paralysis and social phobia.

Material and Method: Our study was approved by Gazi Yaşargil Training and Research Hospital Ethics Committee, and we worked on 80 people as 40 control and 40 case groups. All patients signed informed consent form after objectives and methods of study were explained to them. Patients were examined after signing the informed consent form by experienced physicians. Paralysis of the patients was graded with the House-Brackmann scale. The Liebowitz social phobia symptoms scale was used to measure the level of social phobia. p< 0.05 and 95% confidence interval were accepted as statistical significance.

Results: Everyone who experienced facial paralysis and its effects has anxiety about being in public and social environments. This condition mani-fested itself as a social phobia. In correlation analysis, we realized that a significant correlation was found between the severity of phobia and fact that facial paralysis is in an advanced stage: as a result of Pearson correlation analysis conducted, a weak significant positive correlation was found be-tween the House-Brackmann Grading score and the Liebowitz Social Phobia Symptoms Scale score (r= 0,281, p< 0.05). Our study noted the patients\' undergraduate status, marital status, and age. However, no relationship was found between these values and social phobia.

Conclusion: Our study found a high incidence of social phobia in patients with facial paralysis. The severity of this phobia correlates with the severi-ty of the disease.