KSPRS 2020 Fall Meeting · Lagophthalmos Repair After Male Non-Crease Ptosis Correction
This is the talk I gave at last year's fall meeting. The year was eventful and I kept putting off the write-up; here it is now.
Because it ran on Zoom, there was no chance to take group photos at the venue, and I have no idea where the certificate ended up.
I have a fair number of these now, so the latest one disappeared somewhere on the shelf.
When you attend a meeting you receive a Certificate of Attendance; when you actually present, you receive a Certificate of Appreciation.
An attendance certificate is essentially proof of presence and does not mean much to me personally.
The Certificate of Appreciation for a presentation is the one I find meaningful.
The certificate above is from an earlier lecture I gave to fellow specialists, before I published my paper on medial epicanthoplasty reversal.
Lagophthalmos refers to the following.
The lids appear closed but the eyes remain partially open.
The talk covered the following points.
Lagophthalmos repair is rarely about "undoing" a ptosis correction. It usually involves a skin graft or, in select cases, a gold-weight implant — and the choice depends on direct examination.
The Zoom format kept the lecture going from there.
Patients keep coming to us with severe complications from male non-crease ptosis correction.
Many can be helped, but more cases than I would like prove difficult to fully restore.
An older post is worth a look. This presentation was originally scheduled for the Spring 2020 meeting, so I had been collecting cases since 2019; the meeting was postponed because of COVID.