The facial nerve also helps to stimulate your oral cavity and lacrimal glands. Your facial nerve originates in your brain stem and connects to the pons, which the nerve travels through to reach ...

The greater petrosal nerve branches off of the facial nerve in the skull. Along with a chain of other nerves, it innervates (provides nerve function to) the lacrimal gland, which produces tears.

Methods Four patients with unilateral aberrant VII cranial nerve regeneration following ... A (Dysport ®) was given to the affected lacrimal gland. The effect was assessed with a Schirmer ...

Surgical removal is delicate because the parotid sits between the cheekbone and jawbone and the facial nerve runs right through it, Dr. Gourin says of the gland which contributes a watery fluid to ...

some nerve fibers originating from facial nerve can sidetrack and erroneously connect with the lacrimal ducts instead of the salivary glands. In such instances patients will shed tears while ...

When a person yawns, depending on how forcefully they yawn or how they stretch their other facial muscles, it may put pressure on the lacrimal glands. This can stimulate them to produce tears.

ETF™ Gene Therapy is a proprietary adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapy approach where a target gene is delivered to human lacrimal gland cells via intralacrimal gland injection.