To the Editor: A letter to the Editor (N.E.J.M., January 22, 1970) reports two cases of trigeminal sensory neuropathy associated with Bell's palsy. Investigations gave completely normal results, and the clinical course was benign. I should like to describe a patient with a similar clinical picture but, in addition, minimal evidence of a peripheral sensory neuropathy of the extremities. This 23-year-old ambidextrous woman was first seen at the Naval Hospital, Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, because of numbness over the left side of the face, trouble chewing food, drooling from the left side of the mouth and inability to close the . . .