title: [Correction of the deep nasolabial fold using a temporalis superficialis fascia graft].
abstract: METHODS
  The deep nasolabial fold (NLF) due to age is a frequent complaint from patients in plastic surgery. Various surgical and medical management solutions have been described in literature and are often based on different concepts to justify their interest. We present a new surgical treatment of this region using a temporalis superficialis fascia graft in order to fill the NLF. We also propose a review of the literature about the anatomy and the physiology of this major fold of the face.
  
  
  METHODS
  From 1990 to 2010, we practiced the replenishing of the NLF using a temporalis superficialis fascia graft on 24 female patients. They all were presenting NLF of great or mild importance due to ageing. We also performed on patients with a great importance NLF a lipofilling of the cheek and the lips in order to recover the volumes lost with ageing. The evaluation items were the quality of the filling (importance and symmetry), quality of the scars and complications occurring on the donor and receiving sites.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Objective and subjective results were good. Projection of the NLF was in most of cases strongly and durably restored.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Filling of the deep nasolabial fold using a temporalis superficialis fascia graft is a simple and reliable technique. Depending on the patients this method can be associated with a lipostructure of the cheek and the lips in order to optimize the facial rejuvenation. According to us this tissular implant allows a long lasting and important correction of the NLF.
authors: Service de chirurgie plastique reconstructrice esthétique et chirurgie de la main, hôpital Saint-Roch, CHU de Nice, 5 rue Pierre-Dévoluy, Nice cedex 1, France. pierredumas06@hotmail.com
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Dumas
authors: P-S-A
authors: PS
authors: Nguyen
authors: J-M
authors: JM
authors: Foletti
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Magalon
mesh_terms: D002610:Cheek / Q000601:surgery; D003357:Cosmetic Techniques; D004954:Esthetics; D005205:Fascia / Q000637:transplantation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D060052:Nasolabial Fold / Q000601:surgery*; D015361:Rhytidoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D015595:Skin Aging