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If you fall and hit your head and lose your taste and smell, will you recover?
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Possibly: This usually is due to contusion vs shearing of the nerves for these sensations. Contusion can usually recover, but shearing (cutting) will lower that chance. So hope for the best and maybe you will get some if not full recovery.
Answered 9/28/2016
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