One brow not moving 1 month after Brow Lift

The dissection and movement of the tissues required to elevate the forehead and eyebrows during endocopic brow lift surgery can cause dysfunction of the frontal branch of the facial nerve, which innervates the frontalis muscle. This would lead to decreased function of this muscle.   Fortunately,... more

The nerves that innervate your eyebrow are very sensitive to pressure and stretching which can make them weaker for a time after a browlift. This happens to a lot of surgeons. Sometimes the muscles themselves can suffer trauma that makes them weaker. Time is important. It could take up to 6 months or more... more

With respect to one eyebrow not moving after a browlift, this has to do with bruising, stretching or severing of the frontal branch of the facial nerve. This is the longest branch of the facial nerve and takes the longest to return for functioning. There is also a chance that it may never return. Botox is... more

Injury to the frontal branch of the facial nerve can result in asymmetrical or non movement of the forehead/brow.  This is a paired nerve and either, both, or neither may be injured.  In the endoscopic technique, the usual injury (in my experience anyway) results from stretching the nerve, rather... more

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 Transblepharoplasty brow lift (through the eyelid) Direct brow lift (excising... more

Temporary weakness of the forehead muscles after a browlift is not uncommon. There are several possible causes. The nerve that causes movement of the brow runs very close to a vein that frequently needs to be cauterized. This can cause some heat transfer to the nerve that may prevent it from working properly... more

Inability to lift one eyebrow after either an endoscopic or open forehead lift or brow lift is not uncommon. it is usually due to post-op swelling, stretching, or bruising around the frontal branch of the facial nerve. In most patients the funciton of the frontalis muscle which lifts the brow recovers... more

It sounds as if some type of injury occured to the frontalis branch of your facial nerve. In the vast majority of cases the nerve is only stretched and stunned. Over time the function will recover. Seeing a physical therapist skilled in nerve injury rehab might help you take control of your own process... more

Sometimes after a browlift, the nerves that innervate the frontalis muscles are stretched a bit.  Usually this gets better over time., most of the time this improves over the first 6-12 weeks.  If the nerve wasacutally cut, then it will not get better. 

The nerve that innervates the forehead is the frontal branch of the facial nerve.  It travels in front of the ear across the arch of the cheek bone and then approximately 2 cm above the lateral (outside) portion of the eyebrow.  The object of any brow lift is to correct brow sagging without injury to... more