Abstract

CAIRO WILLIAMS, Vladimir Elier; LUGO DIAZ, Lupe Idalma  and  SANZ PEREZ, Raúl Antonio. Application of the CO₂ laser in blepharoplasty. AMC [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.4. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: the ophthalmological esthetic surgery has as purpose the treatment of most of the change lesions related with the aging and solar exposure. Objective: to determine the results obtained with the application of the CO2 laser in transcutaneous superior blepharoplasty in patients with dermatochalasis diagnostic. Method: a prospective descriptive study was carried out in forty-five patients older than forty years attended at the Oculoplasty consultation with dermatochalasis diagnostic. The universe was constituted by forty-eight adults evaluated in this consultation. The information was gathered by means of data collecting schedules previously elaborated. A survey was applied to the participants in the investigation and to the surgeon that included the following variables: study purpose, age groups, sex, causes of surgery, esthetic and functional improvement, patient's expectation, transoperative and postoperative complications and patient's and surgeon’s grade of satisfaction. The statistical programs SPSS v-11.5 for Windows was used for the information statistical processing. Results: a very similar rank between esthetics and therapeutics was observed corresponding the biggest number of surgeries to the female sex in both categories. The esthetic and functional improvement is satisfactory in most of the patients. Conclusions: blepharoplasty with CO2 laser is a most esthetics surgery for the female sex; it reaches a remarkable esthetic and functional improvement with a minimum of complications in patients with a good expectation.

Keywords : BLEPHAROPASTY; LASER TERAPHY; LASER GAS; EPIDEMIOLOGY DESCRIPTIVE; SURGERY PLASTIC; ADULT.

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