A Nondeforming Rhytidectomy Incision

Abstract.

A new incision for facial rhytidectomy is presented that completely avoids deformation of the frame of the hair and allows the hair to be combed back without showing the scar, which becomes almost completely invisible in most patients if the incision is made at exactly the specified level. Several authors have tried to maintain the normal hairline, but some of their incisions deform the frame of the hair on the sides, higher than the level of the outer corner of the eye, and others go even higher than this point outside of the hairline, making the scar quite visible! The indications and contraindications for this operation and its designed incisions are discussed. These incisions encourage plastic surgeons not to remove any scalp in the rhytidectomy, but only the skin, because it is precisely the removal of scalp instead of skin that deforms the face, unless the amount of scalp tissue removed is very small. These same incisions are indicated for men.