SmartLifting fiber laser-assisted facial rejuvenation techniques.

The greatest fear of using lasers subcutaneously in the face is that facial motor nerve injury will occur. With SmartLifting procedures, this is not a complication that occurs provided the laser and surgical guidelines are followed. We have seen several short-term, marginal mandibular neuropraxias in several patients, all of which resolved within weeks. There have been no permanent nerve injuries in any patient undergoing SmartLifting procedures. There is temporary interruption of cutaneous sensory nerves during the rhytidectomy, and the resolution of the temporary sensory deficits is identical to the resolution of non-laser-elevated rhytidectomies.