Thank you Rob - re: Jumping Man

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Hi Rob,

Thank you for the info on the canthoplasty procedure.

I've tried googling but must have been putting in too many words as I wasn't

getting anything useful.

My son's profile is very flat and will need to be built up with a bone graph

when he's older. The scars don't bother him either - he continues to go a

million miles an hour.

el.

Evergreen Lee

397 Freeman Crescent,

Oakville, ON L6H 4R4

Phone: 905 338-8762

Fax: 905 338-1157

Cell: 416 526-7581

>From: Rob <r.watson@...>

>Reply-blepharophimosis

>blepharophimosis

>Subject: Re: blepharophimosis Thoughts on " Combined Surgery " and

>confusedabout trans nasal wiring

>Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:19:21 +1000

>

>

> > I was told the 2nd surgery was a medial canthoplasty using the 'jumping

>man

> > procedure' which basically left sideways 'w's on the inner corners of

> > Keaton's eyes.

> >

> > I don't know if other people have had this surgery as I see people post

> > about 'trans nasal wiring'. Can someone please tell me what this is

> > procedure is?

>

>The medial canthoplasty is quite common, maybe much more common than

>trans-nasal wiring (not that there's anything BPEI-related that's ever

>'common'!).

>

>It does two things:

>1. Addresses the blepharophimosis (the 'B' in BPEI) by extending the eye

>openings inwards towards the nose.

>2. Addresses the epicanthus inversus (the 'EI' in BPEI) by rearranging

>(reversing?) the folds of skin there.

>

>After nearly 40 years [i must have had it done a number of years before

>I was born, right? ;-)], my medial canthoplasty is holding up even

>better than the ptosis sling. Scarring has never bothered me, and I've

>seen others with much less scarring than mine.

>

>A Google search for 'canthoplasty' and " jumping man " will turn up info

>and pictures.

>

>Rob W

>L'Oz

>