Cross mental nerve graft has the potential of helping patients (restoration of sensation of the lip and other anatomical regions. This procedure currently available for nerve reconstruction involves microsurgery, it is a procedure called cross-face nerve grafting, a technique that uses a nerve...
Often it is possible to remove the metal plates. Usually this is done only for infection, pain or plates becoming obvious under the skin.I doubt the plates are the cause for the eyelid differences. I recommend to see an oculoplastic surgeon or facial plastic surgeon for evaluation.
You might want to follow-up with your original surgeon to be evaluated. A CT scan might help to determine how your bones have healed. You may also have had some fat or volume loss following your accident. If it is just a matter of some asymmetry between the two sides, you might benefit fro...
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