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Achieving Symmetry in Browplasty
Author(s) -
Jarchow Robert C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1002/lary.1986.96.8.837
Subject(s) - forehead , ptosis , blepharoplasty , plastic surgery , symmetry (geometry) , medicine , computer science , surgery , orthodontics , mathematics , eyelid , geometry
As is well known by facial plastic surgeons, the browplasty serves to augment the favorable aesthetic effect of blepharoplasty as well as delay or reduce the effect on the forehead that the ptotic brow creates in compensatory elevation. A method of achieving postoperative symmetry in performing direct browplasty is described utilizing: 1. direct measurement of the amount of preoperative ptosis; and 2. known anatomic reference points in which to correlate these measurements on the face. The surgical technique involving a layered plastic closure is also described in order to further obtain the most desirable postoperative result.