Days after my facelift w/fat transfer under eye/cheeks I noticed I had facial weakness/paralisis on one side . I could not lift my eyebrow, I had teary eye and the eye blinking was affected too. Now, 5 months later I have partially recovered but i worry that I still have numbness and my eye will not fully blink (or close evenly) - shape of eye changed (outside corner of eye looks down), droppy eye?, is this due to weakened muscle, is the nerve damage reversible?
September 22, 2015
Answer: Facial nerve injury Facial nerve weakness is a rare but the ne'er standby distressing complication from a facelift. The good news is that 80 percent of facial nerve problems after facelift will resolve on their own, but could take up to one year.
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September 22, 2015
Answer: Facial nerve injury Facial nerve weakness is a rare but the ne'er standby distressing complication from a facelift. The good news is that 80 percent of facial nerve problems after facelift will resolve on their own, but could take up to one year.
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September 18, 2015
Answer: Facial nerve injury Nerve damage is reversible if the nerve is only stretched and not cut. In this case, the injury is called neuropraxia and nerve function usually returns by 3 months time. If the nerve is cut, the injury is called axonotmesis and recovery of function may not return. The loss of brow function suggests injury to your temporal branch. If it has returned, the injury was only a neuropraxia. If your brow function has returned, yet you are unable to close your eye fully, an orbital branch of the temporal nerve was injured or the zygomatic branch of the facial nerve was injured. There are multiple nerve branches to the orbicularis muscle that makes the eye close and many times these multiple branches compensate for the loss of a few injured branches. At 5 months, it may be a consideration to undergo a canthopexy to correct the lateral lower lid lag you are experiencing.
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September 18, 2015
Answer: Facial nerve injury Nerve damage is reversible if the nerve is only stretched and not cut. In this case, the injury is called neuropraxia and nerve function usually returns by 3 months time. If the nerve is cut, the injury is called axonotmesis and recovery of function may not return. The loss of brow function suggests injury to your temporal branch. If it has returned, the injury was only a neuropraxia. If your brow function has returned, yet you are unable to close your eye fully, an orbital branch of the temporal nerve was injured or the zygomatic branch of the facial nerve was injured. There are multiple nerve branches to the orbicularis muscle that makes the eye close and many times these multiple branches compensate for the loss of a few injured branches. At 5 months, it may be a consideration to undergo a canthopexy to correct the lateral lower lid lag you are experiencing.
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