I gave a talk titled "Mild Ptosis Correction Using Levator Aponeurosis Advancement." Looking back from 2018, this was already four years ago. On June 27-28, 2014, I lectured at Severance Hospital (Sinchon) and the next day did a live-surgery demonstration.
Here is the brochure from that meeting. I was at a different clinic then, so my old affiliation is listed.
The OR shot is mosaicked, as it should be.
The auditorium was sizable. The photo must have been taken during a break. The lecture was Saturday afternoon, and the live surgery was the next morning.
Going over the plan with the patient before the case.
On the left is my mock-up patient.
The scrub nurses who assisted on the case. We still keep in touch. Good people.
Big crowd in the room. Colleagues stood in a ring around the OR to observe directly, and other board-certified plastic surgeons watched the broadcast in adjacent lecture halls. I was wearing a microphone so we could discuss the technique back and forth in real time.
Pre- and post-op photos of the demonstration patient. The final result.
She has been a kind friend ever since, and has referred a number of patients my way. Her case was a revisional double-eyelid surgery rather than a primary, with some sausage fullness and a sleepy look that we needed to refine. The talk centered on safe dissection, avoiding asymmetry, and minimizing scar.