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Many patients with blepharoptosis have increased innervational tone to both levator palpebrae superioris muscles, subject to the Hering law. Other patients may habitually contract the frontalis muscles to clear the visual axes. Determination of the resting eyelid position is helpful in planning surgical correction. A technique for simultaneously relaxing the frontalis muscles and eliminating excess levator innervation employs interruption of fixation of the eye with ptosis and manual elevation of the contralateral upper eyelid.
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Abdul-Rahim, A.S. Determination of resting upper eyelid position in patients with ptosis. Ann Ophthalmol 33, 298–299 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12009-001-0043-8
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