Good turn-out for the Aesthetic and Cosmetic Surgery updates. Here are our lucky winners!

On 16 October 2014, ISEC Penang organized a talk on "Advances of Aesthetic & Cosmetic Surgery from Korea & USA".

I presented 3 talks :

1. New Concept on Facial Ageing
2. Advances of Aesthetic & Cosmetic Surgery from Korea & USA
3. DOs and DON'Ts in Aesthetics

It was a fun-filled day. The turn-out was very encouraging despite being a weekday and during office hours. I am glad to meet all the attendees and had a good interactive sessions with them. I also managed to do a live demo for dermal filler injection of the eyebag. It was the first time for many of them to watch a live injection.

There were 3 lucky draw winners, each received free aesthetic treatments. The grand prize winner walked away with a free eyelid and medial epicanthoplasty surgery.

Yummy and healthy food for the participants.

 I will be visiting ISEC Penang 20 & 21 November 2014. For appointments kindly call 04 228 8802. Address 229, Jalan Burma, Penang.

Cosmetic lateral canthoplasty and its potential complications

Lateral canthoplasty is a common cosmetic procedure whereby the outer corner of the eye is split to widen the horizontal aperture of the eye. It can be performed together with double eyelid surgery and medial epicanthoplasty to achieve longer and wider eye that makes the eye appear larger, wider and more attractive.


However, if not properly performed can give rise to complications. One of the complications that may arise from lateral canthoplasty is lacrimal ductule fistula, as seen in this patient. She had the lateral canthoplasty surgery done elsewhere a couple of months ago. She was referred to me for uncontrollable tearing. She started tearing a few weeks after the surgery. It has become a nuisance as she needs to wipe her eyes frequently and her eyeliner would not stay and smudge. 


The treatment for the fistula is called fistulectomy surgery whereby the tiny passage connecting to the lacrimal gland is excised and sutured.  

This patient underwent fistulectomy surgery and the tearing subsided immediately after the surgery.

Google Translate:

眼尾手术是一种常见的化妆品程序，使眼睛的外角被分割加宽眼睛的横向孔。它可与双眼皮和内眼角手术实现更长更宽的眼睛，使眼睛显得更大，更广泛，更具吸引力的进行。 

然而，如果没有正确地进行可产生并发症。一个可能产生的横向canthoplasty的并发症是下泪小管瘘，如在本例看出。她有横向内眼角手术别处做了几个月前。她称我为无法控制的撕裂。她开始在手术后撕裂了几个星期。它已成为一个麻烦，因为她需要经常擦拭她的眼睛和她的眼线不会留下污迹。 

为瘘的治疗被称为瘘管切除手术从而微小通道连接到泪腺切除和缝合。

这名患者接受了瘘管切除手术，手术后立即消退撕裂。