title: Absorbable screws in endoscope-assisted forehead lifting.
abstract: Many methods have been used to make the soft tissue fixation in endoscope-assisted forehead lifting (EAFL). Since we started doing EAFL, we have employed the fixation with stainless screws and absorbable screws. After noticing that the temporary fixation with metallic screws had some negative effects, we changed to temporary fixation by bioabsorbable (polylactic acid copolymer) screws. The purpose of this study is to transmit our experience and to comment on some points that we believe will improve this method. Our study includes the endoscopic surgeries we have performed over the last four years. Ninety-nine patients were operated on. In 61 of them, absorbable screws were used. We have had very good results using these screws without important complications. We think that they offer a great improvement to endoscopic facial surgery.
authors.affiliation: Marquesa de Vilallonga, 12-08017 Barcelona, Spain. 8038jbm@comb.es
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benito
authors.forename: Vinicius Julio
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Camargo
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torres
mesh_terms: D001763:Blepharoptosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005546:Forehead / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D013525:Surgical Instruments