For citation: Nerobeev A.I., Pogabalo I.V., Polshina V.I. The functional assessment of restitution of a mimic and masseteric musculation at surgical treatment of neuropathy of a facial nerve with the use of a masseteric nerve. Golova i sheya. Rossijskij zhurnal Head and neck Russian Journal. 2019;7(3):8–16 (in Russian).

Doi: 10.25792/HN.2019.7.3.8–16

Electromyographic examination of the masseteric and temporal muscles, as well as the circular muscles of the mouth and eyes was performed for diagnosis verification and in order to determine the extent of surgery during reinnervation of the facial muscles using the masticatory nerve in 42 patients of various age groups (from 20 to 79 years). All patients were divided into 4 groups. Postoperatively, this examination allowed evaluating the treatment effectiveness. Thirty-four patients noted the restoration of the denervated masseteric muscle bioelectric activity, which confirms the conduction of a nerve impulse along the masticatory nerve. The examination of facial muscles also confirmed the bioelectric activity restoration of the mouth and eyes circular muscles in 38 patients. Thus, the applied method made it possible to fully confirm the high efficiency of the proposed technique for reinnervation of facial muscles using the masticatory nerve.

Key words: facial nerve neuropathy, electromyography, reinnervation, masticatory nerve, dysfunction of masseters

The authors declare no conflict of interest. Source of financing: not specified.

For citation: Nerobeev A.I., Pogabalo I.V., Polshina V.I. The functional assessment of restitution of a mimic and masseteric musculation at surgical treatment of neuropathy of a facial nerve with the use of a masseteric nerve. Golova i sheya. Rossijskij zhurnal Head and neck Russian Journal. 2019;7(3):8–16 (in Russian).

The authors are responsible for the originality of the data presented and the possibility of pub-lishing illustrative material – tables, figures, photographs of patients.

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