Surgical Correction of Lower Lid Epiblepharon With Skin-Only Resection Using a Novel Design.

Abstract

This study is to report the surgical outcome of lower lid epiblepharon repair with skin-only resection using a newly designed incision line. A retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series analysis of 134 eyes of 67 patients, who underwent surgical correction of lower lid epiblepharon with skin-only resection using the new incision design, was performed. After marking the 4 vertical lines at the medial canthus, punctum, midpoint, and lateral canthus, the upper and lower incision lines were drawn from the medial canthus through punctum to the lateral canthus with novel design. After incising the skin along the marked line, gentle dissection of the skin flap from the underlying orbicularis muscle was performed. Only skin flap was excised and closed. The patients were followed up for more than 6months. The mean age of patients was 7.9 ± 3.7 years (range 4-13 years) and the mean follow-up period was 18.0 ± 5.7 months (range 13-31 months). During the follow-up period, recurrence of the epiblepharon was not observed. There was no occurrence of complications such as lower lid ectropion or retraction. Skin-only resection using a newly designed incision line is a simple and effective method to fully correct the medial portion of the lower lid epiblepharon and prevent dog-ear formation or overcorrection at the lateral portion, and prominent lid crease.