Facial nerve damage

This is what facial nerve damage looks like. Don’t worry, Macchi has since healed up. A few weeks ago, he surprised me with a deep laceration on his right cheek. The vet was concerned that there was damage to the facial nerve because his bottom lip was drooping. He said that the other thing they see with facial nerve damage is that the muscle gets pulled to the same side as the damage. The reason for that is the muscle is no longer getting signals to hold itself up.