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Our mini-facelift for orientals

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery volume 19, pages 49–58 (1995)Cite this article

Abstract

Facelifts are classified into (1) the extra skin facelift in which redundant skin around the ear is excised without skin undermining, (2) the mini-facelift in which cheek skin is undermined up to the lateral side of the canthus, (3) the radical facelift in which subcutaneous undermining is done up to the nasolabial groove, and (4) the total facelift that includes forehead, eyelids, lips, chin, and so on. The authors checked the results of each facelift by measuring width of the preauricular that was excised. They report that the mini-facelift for Orientals yields the same results but less complications when compared with other facelift procedures except for the total facelift. The authors explain their mini-facelift technique and also the differences in the skin thickness, skeleton, and so on, between Caucasians and Orientals which influence the results of the facelift.

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  1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa University, 1-5-8, Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142, Japan

    Takuya Onizuka M.D., Yoshiaki Hosaka M.D., Masayuki Miyata M.D. & Masaharu Ichinose M.D.

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This paper was presented at the Xth Congress of International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Zurich, Switzerland, September 12, 1989

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Onizuka, T., Hosaka, Y., Miyata, M. et al. Our mini-facelift for orientals. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 19, 49–58 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00209311

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Key words

  • Mini-facelift
  • Rhytidectomy
  • Partial facelift