Background Reconstructive surgery of the facial nerve is not daily routine for most head and
neck surgeons. The published experience on strategies to ensure optimal functional results …

Current outcome tracking in facial palsy is multimodal, consisting of patient-reported
outcome measures, clinician-graded scoring systems, objective assessment tools, and novel …

OBJECTIVE: One-stage free-flap facial reanimation may be accomplished by using a gracilis
transfer innervated by the masseteric nerve, but this technique does not restore the patient's …

OBJECTIVE: Early repair of facial nerve paralysis when cortical neural input cannot be
provided by the facial nerve nucleus, is generally accomplished anastomozing the …

OBJECTIVE Facial palsy is a well-known functional and esthetic problem that bothers most
patients and affects their social relationships. When the time between the onset of paralysis …

Facial palsy (FP) is a devastating condition with profound functional, aesthetic, and
psychosocial implications. Injury to the facial nerve disrupts the complex association …

Although primary facial nerve repair attains the best results, nerve grafting with the sural
nerve and commercially available motor nerve allografts can be used alone, or in …

Facial paralysis is a clinical entity associated with significant morbidity, which has a
treatment paradigm that is continually evolving. Surgical management of the paralyzed face …

Facial reanimation is the surgical process of attempting to restore dynamic, spontaneous
symmetry to the paralysed face. We undertook to review the most frequently used scoring …

Purpose Peripheral facial nerve palsy is a severely disabling condition. In current clinical
practice, the commonest tools to assess facial palsy are grading scales, digital face image …