Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Table 3 Functional sensory and taste recovery in early and later cases at 24 months after surgery

From: Effect of duration from lingual nerve injury to undergoing microneurosurgery on improving sensory and taste functions: retrospective study

	Early cases		Later Cases
	Improvement	No improvement	Improvement	No improvement	P value
FSR achievement	41 (93.2%)	3 (6.8%)	19 (90.5%)	2 (9.5%)	0.655
Recovery of taste	27 (61.4%)	17 (38.6%)	15 (71.4%)	6 (28.6%)	0.586

Numbers/percentages represent the number or ratio of cases. P values were calculated using the Fisher’s exact test

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