Masseteric-facial nerve anastomosis: case report
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Single-stage Dynamic Reanimation of the Smile in Irreversible Facial Paralysis by Free Functional Muscle Transfer
Published on: March 1, 2015
Luis Eduardo Bermudez1, Luis Eduardo Nieto
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Military Hospital, Calle 123 No. 8-30, Cons. 501, Bogota, Colombia.
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
|February 20, 2004
Abstract:
When a viable proximal facial nerve is not accessible, facial nerve paralysis has been managed with hypoglossal facial anastomosis, which results in varying degrees of hemiglossal atrophy and its sequelae. These authors have used the masseteric nerve to neurotize the facial nerve in one patient.

