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Asymmetric face

Asymmetric face

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Asymmetric face is a symptom if a person's face is very asymmetric or unusually asymmetric. Facial asymmetry means the left half of the face and the right half are not mirror images of one another. Most normal people have a little asymmetry of the face.

Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this

16 year experience in family medicine

How long it usually lasts:

Chronic (lasts years to lifelong)

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