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To the Editor: The acceptance of a partial face allograft as a promising procedure for patients with facial disfigurement will depend on long-term functional results. An impressive recovery of sensory function was reported by Dubernard et al. (Dec. 13 issue).¹ This recovery of sensory function is understandable, given that the maxillary and mandibular nerves were resutured in the recipient's face. The recovery of motor function, however, remains a mystery, since only a single branch of the facial nerve (described by Dubernard et al. as "the inferior branch of the left facial motor nerve") was resutured. Such a nerve branch does . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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