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Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001;127:719-722.

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Hypothesis: Formal ophthalmologic evaluation should be a preoperative requirement prior to blepharoplasty.

BACKGROUND

Blepharoplasty has become a common cosmetic procedure practiced by many specialties. As with any cosmetic procedure, there is a fine balance between positive adjustments of form without any alteration in function. The full evaluation of patients for blepharoplasty includes a multitude of tests designed to select appropriate candidates for the procedure and exclude those who might be predisposed to any adverse functional or cosmetic outcome. Ophthalmologic expertise adds validity to the preoperative assessment, and an opthalmologic evaluation is often performed routinely more for medicolegal purposes than to change operative management. Moreover, it has become dogmatic in many training institutions to include ophthalmologic evaluation as a part of the standard evaluation prior to blepharoplasty. Many, however, feel that this extra step in the preoperative assessment may be redundant: the test result rarely alters the decision to perform blepharoplasty, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

ADVERSE OUTCOMES FOLLOWING BLEPHAROPLASTY

BIOMECHANICS OF LID FUNCTION AND CORNEAL PROTECTION

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT VS OPHTHALMOLOGIC TESTING

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CON

BOTTOM LINE



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