Correction of weakened brow movement after browlift varies on surgery performed

Otto Joseph Placik, MD answers: One brow not moving 1 month after Brow Lift

My surgeon says to wait, and the movement will return. What could have happened?


Otto Joseph Placik, MD
10 months ago

This can be caused by mechanical intereference with the muscle or nerve.

You did not specify the type of procedure

Generally recovery of nerve function is to be expected in most cases of brow lift but it depends on the technique

  1. Transblepharoplasty brow lift (through the eyelid)
  2. Direct brow lift (excising skin above the eyebrow)
  3. Pretrichal Brow/Forehead Lift (in front of the hairline)
  4. Endobrow lift (Forhead lift using endoscopic techniques )
  5. Coronal brow lift (incision across the scalp from ear to ear)
  6. Contour thread or suture suspension  (thread style lift)

Depeding on what technique was used the nerve or muscles can be exposed to differing amounts of injury and will recover over different time periods.

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