Erschienen in:
01.04.2006 | Discussion
Temporoparietal Fascia Plication in Rhytidectomy
verfasst von:
Bryan C. Mendelson
Erschienen in:
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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Ausgabe 2/2006
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Excerpt
This interesting article presents, for the first time, a method for correction of the temple using an adaption of the face-lift technique used by many surgeons for the cheek (i.e., supraplatysma dissection with external plication of the exposed superficial musculoaponeurotic system [SMAS]) [
3,
6,
10]. This technique is favored for its simplicity and safety. There is a certain logic in this because, as the authors clearly point out, the general layout of the temple anatomy is similar to that elsewhere on the face in that it has a mobile superficial fascia, termed the “temporoparietal fascia” in this article, or “the SMAS” in the context of the cheek. These are the names given for the same general structure in different regions of the face. …