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?
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If you are not satisfied with the results of the MACS facelift it does not maker sense for you to repeat the same procedure. In a patient with a fuller face I feel that more can be achieved with a lift that includes liposuction, SMAS elevation, and imbrication of the platysma muscle to remove...
The depressions that you see are a taught SMAS flap from the facelift that was performed. The odds of this improving over the next 2 months, when all scars are final, is very slim. The soft tissue redundancy near the right side of the mouth can be soft tissue laxity left from the surgery, but...
Liposuction under the chin to give definition to the jawline will give you improvement. Some women are very thin and have a very prominent jawline
which cannot be achieved in thicker skin without risk of irregularities.
