Seeking a way to improve outcomes for facial paralysis patients
A team of surgeons helped give a 9-year-old patient with congenital facial paralysis the ability to smile
A unique approach provides long-lasting results with minimal impact on the disease state
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As intervention and surgical techniques improve, facial reanimation patients can achieve a more natural look
Anterolateral thigh fascia flaps, minimal access approaches and abbreviated hospital stays are reducing the “costs” of free flap surgery
Innovation in patient care, education and research to be major focus
Essentials of the case and implications for future transplants
Surgeons recount the instant the OR went from hush to collective sigh
Operation in 21-year-old is the institution’s first total face transplant
