METHOD FOR EYEBROW ELEVATION IN ENDOSCOPIC FOREHEAD LIFT Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B17/00 A61B17/32 A61M5/32 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: scalp is incised. That is followed by subperiosteal endoscopic separation of a forehead flap. Supraorbital and trochlear nerves are separated. The periosteum is transected. The forehead flap is separated and the nerves are separated by means of upward tractions of a raspatory. A cutting edge of the raspatory faces a frontal bone. The forearm flap is elevated at a distance big enough to elevate the eyebrows to an elevation limit marked intraoperatively by injection needles at 90° along the preoperative skin marks. The flap is fixed.

EFFECT: method enables avoiding nervous injuries, reducing number of injuries and timing of surgery by means of the raspatory, which is the only surgical instrument, provides achieving the desired eyebrow elevation angle precisely owing to the injection needle marks.

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