Facebook like counter has been zeroed - facebook

In some stage few days ago many of the website pages' counter has been zeroed.
After various examinations, using facebook's debug tool (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button) I realized that there is no problem in my plugin embedded code. The counter in the debug took shows the exact number as it shows in the website.
But still, what can we do?? is there a way to restore the lost likes counts (and users lists that liked the pages etc.)?
Maybe something else has happened?
Many thanks,
Ehud

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Cheers!
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