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Post-Treatment => Facial Issues => Topic started by: jerseygirl on January 18, 2011, 09:26:48 am

Title: Minimally Invasive Technique to reanimate facial paralysis
Post by: jerseygirl on January 18, 2011, 09:26:48 am

Anybody knows something about this?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110117161452.htm

Is this new or a variation of the existing thing?

                 Eve

Title: Re: Minimally Invasive Technique to reanimate facial paralysis
Post by: Kaybo on January 18, 2011, 09:45:10 am

Dr. Byrne (love that man!) was one that did my T3 - if you look at the bottom of the article, he is listed as one of the "team" this one talks about...

K   ;D

Title: Re: Minimally Invasive Technique to reanimate facial paralysis
Post by: lori67 on January 18, 2011, 11:08:13 am

Sounds to me like a new variation of the T3.

The way I read it, there is a chance of spontaneous movement after healing and therapy instead of the static improvement from the original T3.  Sounds almost like the way the 7/12 works - take a piece of one thing that's still working and partially hooked up and make it work on something else, without losing function of the original part.  Or if that doesn't make sense (and it probably doesn't the way I try to explain things!   ::)), how about imagining an extension cord plugged into the wall at one outlet and plugging two things into the other end - two things running from one power source.

This sounds like an awesome procedure!  Thanks for sharing it.  I'm sure this will come in handy for a lot of people!

Lori

Title: Re: Minimally Invasive Technique to reanimate facial paralysis
Post by: nancyann on January 21, 2011, 09:42:38 pm

Hi Eve:  thanks for posting this.  The T3 is the best thing that could have happened to me post AN surgery.   I got my face back, enough said.
I would recommend the T3 & 'newer' version to anyone with chronic facial paralysis.
Always good thoughts,  Nancy