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Maxillofacial Surgery
The Orbital Region
Built from Facial Aesthetics — Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis
What’s inside
8 sections · 81 slides
Overview
- What this covers
Why the eyes matter
The most written-about feature of the face
- The eyes as the focus of facial beauty
- What the orbital region is
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- The eyes convey thought
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- The eyes are strikingly expressive
- What the eyebrows do
The words you will meet
Eyelid and orbit terms, taken apart
- Word roots that unlock the jargon
- Eyelids that turn the wrong way
- More terms in one line each
- Brow, or brows?
Anatomy
The socket, the lids and the surface of the eye
- The orbit is a pyramid on its side
- Bones and rims of the orbit
- What the socket holds
- Orbital fat is not just packing
- The eyelids: two moving curtains
- How an eyelid is built, front to back
- Tarsal plates, ligaments and orbital septum
- What holds the lids in shape
- Skin and lashes at the lid margin
- The part of the eye you actually see
- Surface features of the eyes and eyelids
- The iris works like a camera aperture
- Every iris is unique
- The cornea
Clinical evaluation
Look in order: head position, then brow, then lid
- The order of looking
- Start with the brow, not the lid
- Male brow versus female brow
- The female brow in numbers
- Where the female eyebrow starts, peaks and ends
- Leonardo's line to the brow peak
- Commissure, limbus and brow peak on one line
- The brow flows into the nose
- Brow to nasal tip aesthetic line
- When the brow drops
- Which part of the brow has dropped?
- The slant of the eye opening
- Normal slant of the palpebral fissure
- Describing an unusual slant
- Increased inferomedial and inferolateral slant
- A quick symmetry check
- Upper lid versus lower lid
- The 45-degree slope of the lower lid in profile
- Highest point of the upper lid, lowest point of the lower
- How much white should show
- Lower lid tone: why it matters
- Two tests for lower lid tone
- The avoidable complication
- The upper lid crease
- How the crease divides the upper lid
- When the crease is missing or hidden
- An upper lid without a visible crease
- Sheen's test for crease height
- Sheen's test for lid margin to crease distance
- Orbital fat pads
Measurements around the eyes
Widths, spacing and how they relate
- Why absolute numbers need care
- Eyes set too far apart
- Telecanthus and hypertelorism
- Eyes set too close
- Widely spaced orbits in Crouzon syndrome
- Four measurements to know
- Measuring orbital and interocular widths
- Normative values for orbital and interocular dimensions
- Reading those normal values
- The rule of fifths
- More proportions worth checking
- 8–10 mm
- What those projections tell you
- Symmetry around the eyes
The eyelashes
Small hairs with a measurable job
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- How long is a lash meant to be?
- Lashes as protection
- Lash length and attractiveness
Key points
What to carry out of this topic
- Key points: anatomy and words
- Key points: what to examine
- References
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- Facial Aesthetics: Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis, 2nd Edition