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Treatment of Sunken Eyelid

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Sunken eyelid is a deformity of the upper eyelid due to atrophy of periocular fat tissue, loss of skin elasticity, natural aging process, facial trauma, or complication of previous periocular surgery. Many methods are available to treat sunken eyelid such as repositioning, refilling, and their combination. In this chapter refilling with fat graft and with dermofat graft is described, as well as other methods of correcting the sunken eye. Fat or dermofat grafts make sunken eyes thicker and eliminate the multiple folds in the upper eyelids giving a younger look.

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  1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,College of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, 3056-6 Daemyung 4-dong Namgu, Daegu, 705-718, Korea

    Dae Hwan Park

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    Melvin A. Shiffman

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Park, D.H. (2010). Treatment of Sunken Eyelid. In: Shiffman, M. (eds) Autologous Fat Transfer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00473-5_20

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