Facial reconstruction
Facial reconstruction, which is a subspecialty of craniofacial surgery, is surgery that rebuilds any part of the face, including bones and soft tissue. Injury, trauma and cancer are most often the cause for needing facial reconstruction surgery. Other patients come to plastic surgeons when a tumor, mole or other growth has been removed from the face; for growth or development problems; and for vascular or lymph malformations.
Using techniques employed in cosmetic and microvascular reconstructive surgery, like fat and skin grafting and bone and soft tissue transplantation, the surgeons can often replace missing or disfigured parts of the face with tissue and bone from nearby areas. For example, neck skin and fat can be moved up to the cheek to replace the skin and tissue there. Tissue can be removed from another part of the body (such as the abdomen or leg), moved to the face, and covered with skin from a nearby area.
Paralysis and pain
Facial paralysis and pain can be debilitating and cause those suffering from the conditions to retreat from the activities of daily living. Facial paralysis can be caused by a number of conditions, including:
- Traumatic injury
- tumor removal
- Surgery
- Stroke
- Infection
- Bells Palsy
- Moebius syndrome, a birth defect that results in the absence of the sixth and seventh facial cranial nerve
- Other congenital abnormalities
Facial pain generally stems from:
- Trigeminal Neuroma
- Trigeminal Neuragia
- Atypical Facial Pain
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