Volume 32, Number 5, 785-789, DOI: 10.1007/s00266-008-9210-2

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Arcus Marginalis Release in Blepharoplasty I: Technical Facilitation

G. Björn Stark, Niklas Iblher and Vincenzo Penna

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Abstract

Resection of intraorbital fat compartments in lower-lid blepharoplasty has been widely replaced by their realignment over the orbital rim. For older patients this usually includes an open subciliary approach with skin resection and orbicularis muscle modification. In younger patients this may be done transconjunctivally. Fixation of the adipose tissue is controversial. Whereas reliance of realignment on spontaneous prolapse may be unpredictable, suture fixations may be tedious and even cause scleral show or ectropion. A monofilament, double-armed, polypropylene suture on bent straight needles can be used safely to transfix the three compartments across maxilla and zygoma. These transcutaneous pullout sutures are simply fixed with steri-strips. After only 2 days the orbital fat will be sufficiently adherent to its new bed.

Keywords  Lower-lid blepharoplasty - Arcus marginalis release - Tear troughs

Presented in part at the XXth Anniversary Meeting of the Mediterranean Society of Plastic Aesthetic Surgery, Nice, France, 13–15 April 2007.

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