Reinnervation of facial muscles with only a cross-facial nerve graft in a 25-year-old patient with congenital facial palsy.

The standard method for managing chronic facial palsy is the two-stage free-muscle flap. We report a case involving a 25-year-old patient who had facial palsy from her birth. Twelve months after the first stage of a cross-facial nerve graft, we found that the voluntary movements of her facial muscles had returned.