title: Making a malleable awl using a Steinmann pin for transnasal medial canthopexy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors designed a malleable awl using a Steinmann pin for transnasal medial canthopexy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A Steinmann pin with a small eye at the end (00-0187-001-69, Zimmer Inc., Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.) was prepared, and its distal part was bent using pliers (01-9726, Walter Lorenz Surgical Inc., Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.) to make it a semicircle with the diameter of the circle being the intercanthal distance of the patient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Transnasal medial canthopexy was performed for 5 patients with telecanthus. All 5 patients had satisfactory results.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This malleable awl might allow easy, safe, and stable fixation of the tendon, permit a safe approach with minimal bone fenestration, and be cost effective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery and the Center for Advanced Medical Education, Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Han J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019882:Blepharoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005143:Eyelids / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009295:Nasal Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013710:Tendons / Q000601:surgery