Optimization of reconstructive blepharoplasty in the surgical treatment of atonic ectropion of the lower eyelid.

Abstract

Recently, there has been a demographic shift in the age structure of the population towards an increase in the number of elderly people. In such patients, the eyelid skin is dry, thinned and wrinkled, easily stretched. Decreased tone of the circular muscle of the eye and laxity of the eyelid skin leads to eyelid eversion along with the lacrimal point and tearing. Malposition of the lower eyelid leads to the development of chronic inflammatory processes of the mucosa, xerosis, opacity, erosion and ulceration of the cornea, sometimes with perforation of the eye. The aim of the study. To improve the surgical treatment of atonic ectropion of the lower eyelid.