Facial (Eyelid) Paralysis (Bell’s Palsy)

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35 year old male, with severe left facial paralysis and paralytic eyebrow ptosis (droopy brow), underwent direct left eyebrow lift. Preop and 2 months postoperative photos are shown.

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60 year old male, with right eyelid paralytic lagophthalmos (eye not fully closing), underwent right upper eyelid gold weight placement under local anesthesia. The gold weight made the right upper eyelid heavier, which helps it close better. Note resolution of the lagophthalmos in the 3 months postoperative photo (right photo). The gold weight is hidden in the right upper eyelid.

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58 year old female, with left facial palsy with paralytic lagophthalmos, with left upper eyelid gold, with eyes open and closed, showing the gold weight is not visible but it is doing its job to make the left eye close better.

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70+ year old male, with left facial palsy, with inability to close the left eye (lagophthalmos) as shown in the left photo. He received left upper eyelid hyaluronic acid gel filler injection, as non-surgical treatment, to help close the left eye, as shown in the after photo (right).

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Middle age woman with left facial palsy with left lower eyelid retraction underwent left lower eyelid retraction surgery and canthoplasty, without eyelid spacer graft. Before and 3 months postoperative photos are shown.

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Middle age man with severe left lower eyelid retraction after previous lower eyelid surgery with inability to close the left eye, underwent revision left lower eyelid surgery (lower eyelid retraction surgery with internal alloderm spacer graft and external skin graft). Before and 3 months postoperative photos are shown.

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70+ year old male, with left facial/eyelid paralysis from Bells palsy with paralytic left lower eyelid ectropion, underwent left lower eyelid ectropion surgery with skin graft. Before and 3 months postoperative photos are shown.

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68 year old female, with paralytic left lagophthalmos (unable to close left eye) from left eyelid facial palsy, underwent left upper eyelid gold weight and left lower eyelid ectropion repair with skin graft. Before and 3 months after eyelid surgery photos are shown.