A technique has been created to get rid of paralysis in facial muscles

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A new surgical technique will allow patients with facial paralysis to smile. The research was published in the journal Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine.

Möbius syndrome is a rare congenital condition in which a person has no facial expression: cannot smile, has slurred speech and difficulty swallowing. In a new study, scientists found that the facial nerve showed residual activity in patients with this disease.

This allowed scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to develop a surgical procedure that gave many of the children in the study the ability to smile symmetrically.

Doctors used tissue taken from patients’ legs. The patients’ smiles were spontaneous, natural, and consistent with their emotional state.

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When his kidney began to fail in 2023, he agreed to an experimental surgery being tested on people with inactive brains.

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