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1: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003 Jun;111(7):2414-8. Links

Incidence of cervical branch injury with "marginal mandibular nerve pseudo-paralysis" in patients undergoing face lift.

Daane SP, Owsley JQ.

Department of Plastic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, 94115, USA.stevedaane@aol.com

The anatomy of the cervical and marginal mandibular branches of the facial nerve is reviewed. In the senior author's practice, "pseudoparalysis of the marginal mandibular nerve" due to cervical branch injury occurred in 34 of 2002 superficial musculoaponeurotic system-platysma face lifts (1.7 percent) and was associated with a full recovery in 100 percent of cases within a time period ranging from 3 weeks to 6 months. Cervical branch injury can be distinguished from marginal mandibular nerve injury by the fact that the patient will be able to evert the lower lip because of a functioning mentalis muscle.

PMID: 12794490 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]