Effect of Transconjunctival Approach Lower Blepharoplasty Combined with Pinch Skin Excision Technique in Elderly Patients

Lower eyelid position after transconjunctival lower blepharoplasty with versus without a skin pinch.

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of transconjunctival lower blepharoplasty with or without a skin pinch on lower eyelid position. METHODS Retrospective analysis of patients undergoing bilateral lower blepharoplasty using a transconjunctival approach with or without a skin pinch. Patients undergoing other surgical procedures that could affect lower eyelid position were excluded. Twenty-five pati...

Lower Eyelid Pinch Blepharoplasty

Excision of a Lower Eyelid Inflammatory Pseudotumor Combined with Lower Blepharoplasty

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Pinch Blepharoplasty: A Safe Technique With Superior Results

The author has refined his lower blepharoplasty technique with the goal of eliminating scleral show and residual skin while maintaining normal eyelid posture. His technique involves fat removal and/or modification through a transconjunctival approach, aligning the lower eyelid globe and canthus with a stitch canthopexy, and measured excision of redundant skin with mastery of the “pinch” techniq...

Transconjunctival septal suture repair for lower lid blepharoplasty.

BACKGROUND The need for a safer lower-lid blepharoplasty procedure than the classic subciliary approach has long been recognized. In 1996, de la Plaza and de la Cruz first theorized septal suturing via a transconjunctival approach that preserves both muscle and infraorbital fat. This is the first report of a series of patients treated with this technique. The transconjunctival approach can avoi...