- Anti aging
- Beauty and youth is a valuable asset of you
Canthoplasty
- Recovering firmness to the under eye.
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Most widely used mothod is septal reset – relocation of fat through incision right under lower lash
line. It is great method in theory but actually it has many complications.
Especially, ectropion or lid retraction could occur with this operation.
And it can cause strong impression because it makes pretarsal roll disappear
- Complication with lower blepahroplasty
- 01.Downturned under eye(ectropion)
- 02.Sagged eye (Lid rectration)
- 03.Shorten eye length (Horizontal palpebral fissure)
- 04.Rounded eye corner
- 05.Laterial eye saggness
- 06.Disappeared pretarsal roll
- 07.Strong impression
- 08.Discomfort (Tired eyes, soreness, watering) Downturned eye and sclera show caused by damaged orbicularis oculi and orbital septum
- Anatomy of lateral canthus
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Upper and lower lid meets and makes acute angle this is called
lateral canthus. Eye can maintain this shape with lateral canthus
tendon. It comes from inferior and superior crus and joins
(Common tendon). It is 1mm thick, width is 3mm and length is
5mm. It is extended with aging or after lower blepharoplasy -
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Anatomical diagram of canthotomy
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Anatomical diagram of canthotomy
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- Pre operation check-up
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lower lid distraction test
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snapback test
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01.lower lid distraction test
- 02.snapback test
Surgical method
- After care
- 01.Tight feeling : It disappears within a month but rarely it last up to a year
- 02.Surgery site must not have any shock, lateral canthus tendon could be stretched if eyes are shut too tight.
- 03.Patient need to take anti-biotic pills for 5 days.
- 04.Stitch will be removed 7-10 days after operation.
- Complications
- 01.Feeling tight : Generally it disappears within a month but sometimes it last more than a year.
- 02.Scar
- 03.Infection
- 04.Chemosis
- 05.Inadequately located oculi lateralis
- 06.Asymmetry : There are many patients have asymmetrical eye shape. It helps to check patients before or past photos.
Surgical result
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