Paper 2021 · Forehead reduction, 641 cases
Co-author · 2021Forehead Reduction Surgery via an Anterior Hairline Pretrichial Incision in Asians: A Review of 641 Cases
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
641 Asian patients: forehead reduction through a pretrichial incision at the anterior hairline, with a mean central excision of 16.64 mm.
What was recorded
The paper reviews 641 forehead reduction operations through an incision placed just in front of the hairline, recording the amount of skin excised — 16.64 mm at the centre on average — the design of the incision and the complications seen. Forehead reduction lowers the hairline; it is a different operation from the endoscopic forehead lift, which repositions the brow, and the two are not interchangeable.
What it shows
The forehead axis of the practice, begun with the endoscopic lift in 1999, has a large-series record in the peer-reviewed literature. The journal published the paper with an invited discussion (Michelow BJ, Aesthetic Plast Surg 2021;45(4):1561-3, PMID 34231015) — an editor's judgement that the work merited a specialist's commentary.
What it does not show
Dr. Lee is a co-author, in the last position, not the first author, and that is how the paper is cited here. The study concerns forehead reduction and does not evaluate the endoscopic forehead lift or the four causes of a heavy eye, which are clinic explanations, not findings of this paper.
Forehead reduction lowers the hairline; the endoscopic lift repositions the brow. Two operations, not one.
Citation
- Authors
- Lee SH, Oh YH, Youn S, Lee JS
- Title
- Forehead Reduction Surgery via an Anterior Hairline Pretrichial Incision in Asians: A Review of 641 Cases
- Journal
- Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2021;45(4):1551-1560
- Identifiers
- PMID 33683382 · DOI 10.1007/s00266-020-02103-4
- Authorship
- Co-author (last author)
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