Minimally invasive technique appears helpful to reanimate facial paralysis

Monday, January 17, 2011 - 16:33 in Health & Medicine

A procedure involving only one small incision and no major modifications to bone can be used to transpose a tendon and appears helpful in reanimating the lower face after paralysis, according to a report in the January/February issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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