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Combined procedures, good surgical planning key to best oculoplastic outcomes
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BERLIN — Surgeons should carefully consider all oculoplastic options, including multiple procedures, to achieve best surgical results and patient satisfaction.
Blepharoplasty alone can be an effective approach to enhancing patients' functional and aesthetic visual field defects from senile involution, Hüseyin Aral, MD, and Daniel M. Handzel, FEBO, said in a poster study presented at the World Ophthalmology Congress.
At other times, blepharoplasty may need to be combined with additional procedures for optimal patient satisfaction, they said.
"To achieve the best results, combined procedures are necessary," they said. "The operations should be planned at different times to take the results of previous operations — surgical success and the patients' organic and psychomotoric reaction — into account."
Their retrospective study examined 500 patients at a single clinic. The study looked at patient satisfaction, visual field, operation amount, and preoperative and postoperative care.
They found that a "more sophisticated approach is essential in order to achieve the desired effect and ensure the patient's satisfaction."
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