Double Eyelid Operation Using Continuous Buried Suture Method Avoiding Conjunctival Injury by a Newly Made Chalazion Forcep.

Lee,  Jong Hoon; Lee,  Joo Hyuk; Kim,  Chin Whan

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2004;10(2):101-104.
Published online September 1, 2004.

Double Eyelid Operation Using Continuous Buried Suture Method Avoiding Conjunctival Injury by a Newly Made Chalazion Forcep.

Jong Hoon Lee, Joo Hyuk Lee, Chin Whan Kim

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Eulji Medical College, Seoul, Korea. joaljh@paran.com

Abstract

Nowadays, nonincisional double eyelid operation is preferred by lots of patients and surgeons. There are a variety of suture methods but all the suture procedures-including continuous buried suture methods-in the literatures penetrate the conjunctivas. So due to the pain, surgeons had to infiltrate local analgesics into the conjunctiva. This horrifies the patients, gives pain, makes the eyelids and conjunctivas swollen, and sometimes interrupts the movements of the eyelids by affecting the levator palpabrae muscles. This condition could make the eyelid folds asymmetric. Authors changed the procedure by using a chalazion forcep with a small slit which allows the suture materials to get out and we could successfully perform the suture without penetrating the conjunctiva. So we could make double folds maintaining the patient's dynamic and static conditions very well since no direct local analgesics were needed for the conjunctivas, and the results were pretty satisfactory.

Key Words: Chalazion forcep, Non-incisional double eyelid operation, Continuous buried suture method