Responding to Payor Policy Changes That Impact Patients with Postparalytic Facial Palsy: Chemodenervation with Botulinum Toxin.

Facial Plast Surg Aesthet Med

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina Facial Nerve Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Published: September 2022

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