Abstract
Background
Photography plays a pivotal role in patient education, photo-documentation, preoperative planning and postsurgical evaluation in plastic surgeries. It has long been serving as a bridge that facilitated communication not only between patients and doctors, but also among plastic surgeons from different countries. Although several basic principles and photographic methods have been proposed, there is no internationally accepted photography that could provide both static and dynamic information in blepharoplasty. In this article, we introduced a novel six-position, frontal view photography for thorough assessment in blepharoplasty.
Methods
From October 2013 to January 2017, 1068 patients who underwent blepharoplasty were enrolled in our clinical research. All patients received six-position, frontal view photography. Pictures were taken of the patients looking up, looking down, squeezing, smiling, looking ahead and with closed eyes. Conventionally, frontal view photography only contained the last two positions. Then, both novel six-position photographs and conventional two-position photographs were used to appraise postsurgical outcomes.
Results
Compared to conventional two-position, frontal view photography, six-position, frontal view photography can provide more detailed, thorough information about the eyes. It is of clinical significance in indicating underlying adhesion of skin/muscle/fat according to individual’s features and assessing preoperative and postoperative dynamic changes and aesthetic outcomes.
Conclusion
Six-position, frontal view photography is technically uncomplicated while exhibiting static, dynamic and detailed information of the eyes. This innovative method is favorable in eye assessment, especially for revision blepharoplasty. We suggest using six-position, frontal view photography to obtain comprehensive photographs.
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This study was supported by Education financial support for Peking Union Medical College (No. 10023201504022).
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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the clinical research committee of plastic surgery hospital and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
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Cheng Zhang and Xiaoshuang Guo are joint first authors.
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Zhang, C., Guo, X., Han, X. et al. Six-Position, Frontal View Photography in Blepharoplasty: A Simple Method. Aesth Plast Surg 42, 1312–1319 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-018-1104-3
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