Epicanthal Restoration Surgery with Scar Excision in Severe Epicanthal Scar.
BACKGROUND
Medial epicanthoplasty is a common aesthetic surgery in Asia to remove the epicanthal fold. With increasing use of this surgery, unsatisfactory results have grown. Several methods have been developed to correct it. However, there are limitations in restoration if the patient has a severe scar or does not have enough skin for reconstruction. By aggressively removing scar tissue, the authors present a better reverse redraping epicanthoplasty.


METHODS
The procedure was performed on 512 patients who had complications of medial epicanthoplasty from May 2011 to October 2015. The mean age was 31.3 years. Those who had already undergone reconstruction were 15.4% (n = 79). Of these, 68 patients received a V-Y flap and the rest had V-Y modification surgery. After the design, the skin-muscle flap was dissected and elevated. The upper and lower eyelid skin was pulled medially. The previous scar tissue was widely excised while removing skin excess, and the new epicanthal fold was created without a rectangular shape.


RESULTS
The mean interepicanthal distance has been increased from 32.8 to 36.6 mm. The mean lengthening effect is 3.8 mm. Lacrimal lake exposure, fierce and narrow appearance, and incomplete medial eyelid closure were improved.


CONCLUSIONS
Medial epicanthoplasty is a common cosmetic surgery in the Asian population. A demand for an effective reconstructive method has grown in association with higher complication rates. The authors have better results to make a natural epicanthal fold through aggressive scar removal in the reverse redraping epicanthoplasty.


LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV
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['Chung|Yoon Jae|YJ|', 'Koo|Mun Geun|MG|', 'Lee|Soo Hyang|SH|http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1679-5624']
D000328:Adult D044466:Asians D019882:Blepharoplasty D002921:Cicatrix D015331:Cohort Studies D004954:Esthetics D005143:Eyelids D005260:Female D006801:Humans D011379:Prognosis D012086:Reoperation D012189:Retrospective Studies D018570:Risk Assessment D013518:Surgery, Plastic D013524:Surgical Flaps D016896:Treatment Outcome D055815:Young Adult
Medial epicanthoplasty Reconstruction Skin redraping method