The Advantages of Lateral Tarsal Strip Procedure

Patients affected by entropion and treated with LSP recover very quickly, the cutaneous stitches being removed, in general, five days after the surgery. The postoperative treatment is mild and quick (topical and oral antibiotics for preventing postoperative infections associated with oral paracetamol and/or diclofenac for minimizing the postoperative inflammation of the operated area). The data and the findings of this paper are presented in a very effective way and confirm, as it is already described in the most important studies about this topic, that this surgical procedure should be commonly performed for the lower lid involutive entropion, also by the general ophthalmologist with a general experience in ophthalmic surgery and not only by the subspecialist ophthalmic plastic surgeon.