Laila Aboulnasr MD; Tarek Ashour MD; Sherif Zamer MD
Laila Aboulnasr MD; Tarek Ashour MD; Sherif Zamer MD
Usama Lotfi (MD, MRCS) , Hisham Mostafa (MD), Maher Abdelmonem (MD), Ahmed Reyad (MD)
Magdy Haggag, Usama Lotfi, Randa Kaddah
Mohamed El-Maadawy, MD
Mohamed El-Maadawy, MD.
Ahmed M. Hussein MD., Mohamed Y. Ibrahim MD., Mohamed L. Mohamed M.Sc.
Ahmed El-Marakby, Ahmed Farghaly, Ahmed Gamal Eldin Fouad
Ashraf Abolfotooh Khalil, Amr Ibrahim Fouad, Mohamed Hazem, Ahmed F. Aborady, Hatem Elsahar, Ahmed Ragab Morsi
Mahmoud Saad Farahat MD
Fady Magdy Yacoub, Khaled Sadek, Ahmed Adel Nawar
Maged Rihan and Mohamed M.Raslan
Usama Shaker Mohamed, Mohamed Diaa Sarhan, Amr Mohsen, Ahmed Farag, Mohamed Youssef, Fahim Elbassiony
Orbicularis Sling as an Adjuvant to Improve the Aesthetic Outcome of Blepharoplasty
Blepharoplasty is one of the commonly performed aesthetic facial procedures with a marked effect on
countering facial aging. However, lower blepharoplasty can be jeopardized by unfavorable aesthetic
complications mainly sclera like show and lower eyelid ectropion. In this study that was carried out at Kasr
alainy hospital on 30 patients, the effect of the orbicularis sling on reducing the incidence of scleral show
was studied. During routine blepharoplasty, a strip of orbicularis was dissected from the skin flap and
sutured to the lateral orbital wall at the level of the lateral canthus or slightly higher by two anchoring
stitches to the underlying periosteum. Follow up of these cases over a period up to one year revealed the
absence of scleral show in all cases with the restoration of a natural attractive sweep in the lower lid.
Patient satisfaction was very high with only 2 cases of palpable knot that had to be excised after 4 months
under local anesthesia with no effect on the aesthetic outcome. Orbicularis sling is a simple valuable
adjunct in lower blepharoplasty that markedly reduces the incidence of scleral show.
Key words: Blepharoplasty, Orbicularis sling, Periorbital Rejuvenation.