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1. What are the common causes of facial palsy? Include Lyme disease and AIDS.
2. How do we discover the level of the injury
of the nerve? Are CT's or EMG's helpful?
3. Discuss Bell's palsy and its treatment.
4. Discuss the method and efficacy of temporalis
transfer.
5. Discuss the method and efficacy of 12 to
7 nerve transposition.
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6. Discuss the method and efficacy of free flap
muscle implantation and cross-nerve grafting. (PRS 1997; 99:1905)
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7. Discuss the various methods and treatments
of the eye in facial palsy.
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8. Discuss facial rehabilitation after the above
operations. Does electrical stimulation help? (PRS 1997;
99:1922)
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9. How is facial motion evaluated post-operatively?
(PRS 1997; 99:1894)
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10. Discuss blepharospasm, Meige's syndrome,
and botulinum toxin.
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11. Discuss facial palsy in the newborn.
(PRS 1990; 85:1)
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For the following flaps, tell us how to do it, when
to use it, and how to use it on the upper lip in contrast to the lower
lip.
12. Abbe flap.
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18. Webster/Bernand flap. (PRS 1960; 25:360)
19. Step Method. (Scand JPRS 1988; 22:103)
20. A 10-year-old chewed on an electrical cord
several years ago and has constricted scarred commissure with microstomia.
How do you fix this? (Annals PS 1980; 5:281)
21. What are your options to reconstruct a 5-cm
defect in the mid-cheek?
22. How do you do a cervicofacial flap?
How is it different from a cervicopectoral flap?
23. Tell us about platysma flaps. What
is the blood supply? How reliable are they?
24. How do you do a tongue flap to replace lip
tissue? What are the advantages and disadvantages?