Yes: These are complicated surgeries and must be individualized, see a board certified plastic surgeon.
Answered 10/24/2017
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Facial Reanimation: There may not be an "implant" per se, but facial plastic & reconstructive surgeons perform many procedures to reanimate a paralyses face. This can be as small as a gold weight to help close a paralyzed eye, to temporalis muscle transfers and facial slings to even out a paralyzed face when smiling, and gracilis muscle free tissue transfers which and be reinervated with nerve grafting.
Answered 12/9/2013
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Yes: There are some very sophisticated methods to make a paralyzed face move again. This is called facial reanimation. See a facial plastic surgeon, or general plastic surgeon who specializes in this.
Answered 11/22/2013
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Face transplant: Sadly, our methods of transplanting individual muscles are primitive at best. There are too many muscles involved in expression to expect transplanting a few to create anything resembling normal expression.
Answered 8/30/2013
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