Patient education
Facial Asymmetry: Causes and Options
Written for someone deciding about their own face rather than studying the subject. If you read only one guide, read the one on the normal range, because it decides whether the other nine are relevant to you at all.
All guides
10 guides
- Facial Asymmetry in Your Own WordsUnderstanding
- Bone, Muscle, Fat or Dental: Four Causes That Look AlikeCauses
- Is My Asymmetry Within the Normal Range?Assessment
- When Facial Asymmetry Is a Medical SignRed flags
- How Facial Asymmetry Is AssessedAssessment
- The Facial Asymmetry Ladder, Rung by RungOptions
- What Correction Can and Cannot BalanceLimits
- When Facial Asymmetry Should Not Be TreatedDeciding
- Questions to Ask Before Anyone Corrects Facial AsymmetryDeciding
- The Limits of Asymmetry CorrectionLimits
Start with whether this needs investigating at all
Arrange an assessment. We will examine the face at rest and in movement, measure what can be measured, and say whether this is a variation or a finding before anything is planned.