Transient peripheral facial nerve paralysis after local anesthetic procedure

• Author(s): Rosmaninho, A. ; Lobo, I. ; Caetano, M. ; Taipa, R. ; Magalhães, M. ; Costa, V. ; Selores, M.
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/1666
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Centro Hospitalar do Porto
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Complications may arise after laser therapy of the face. The most common ones are bleeding and infections; facial nerve paresis or paralysis is rarely reported. We describe a case of a transient peripheral facial nerve paralysis after laser therapy of an epidermal verrucous nevus localized at the left preauricular area.