My issues is, during the surgery, my left facial nerve was injured because i had had a previous parodectomy which made the facial nerves more susceptible to injury. This info was in my history, i told the physician, pre op nurses and the surgeon but he forgot. I can not lift eyebrow. Also my salivary glad was also injured on my right side and i salivate from my incision. My results are lacking in some places. So i had 2 rare complications at the same time. Is this acceptable?
I had a neck/ facelift 4 years ago and it went horrible wrong. I was so overpulled it still hurts turning my head, I have severe scarring, step of deformety, loss of sideburns, nervedamage, pixieears etc and a very strange face and neck. I went to MRI and the pictures show my muscle growing now in different direction, stange fractuons to smas and a knot of scartissue. How can this happen except from that the muscle have been cut so aggresivly that the muscle must have loosend and pulled apart.
Hello. I am an active man aged 44 with good healthy and usually recover well and fast. I had a facelift and brow bone shredding. One brow has movement coming and a few lines showing on the forehead. But after 6 months the other side is still totally paralyzed. I have no significant swelling. My forehead has no wrinkles which i am guessing that i still have more recovery to wait for . But after 6 months i am starting to suspect that the surgeon ( Turkish) must have cut a nerve or something.
I have nerve damage on my left side of my upper lip when I talk and when I smile. When you look at me at rest I look perfectly fine. My main problem is when I speak, the right side of my mouth works perfectly fine, but the left side still moves but not as much as the right looking like I talk out of the side of my mouth. I had a MACS lift, brow lift, buccal fat removal on the left cheek. My PS has said that he has never seen this and is sending me to a Neurologist. Is this permanent?
I had an endoscopic brow/midface lift 7 months ago. It appears that the buccal branch of my facial nerve (on the left side) has been severed or badly injured. My mouth and upper lip are uneven and I am barely able to flare my left nostril, whereas the right side of my nose and mouth seem overactive. When I speak and chew, my mouth slants downward and to the right. When I smile, my left lip hangs low on my teeth, and the middle of my upper lip is off center. Is there still hope for improvement?
Immediatley after my face lift, my right ear felt like an elephant ear & not my own ear. My left ear, howevev, was just a bit numb. My left ear was fine and it retunred to normal within a few weeks. My right ear has improved (I can touch and bend the ear lobe again and it looks ok), but there is still numbness and pain. It has been 3.5 months since surgery. Is this normal? How do I know if my auricular nerve was cut/damaged?
I had a facelift 4 1/2 mos ago by a double board certified plastic surgeon who only does head/facial surgery. Resulted in marginal mandibular nerve damage. My smile is lopsided & I had to get Botox on the unaffected side to make it more symmetrical, but I miss my natural smile and am very self conscious. What are the chances that it will heal?
From what I've read, the subperiosteal mid face lift is controversial enough on its own. It is risky in terms of nerve damage, is renowned to cause mid face swelling and as a stand alone procedure, it can result in an hourglass type deformity where you look like the Scream. Is this true and why are surgeons still doing this?
The doctor that performed the face lift is very capable and has a very good reputation, so i keep trying to convince myself that the nerve was not cut, but just damaged. The concern is that 12 weeks had passed after the surgery and the eyebrow is still totally paralyzed. If nerve was severed, and doesn’t regenerate, is there a surgery to fix it? I don't want to do Botox on the other side and make both eyes look the same because it looks droopy. Thank you very much