Re: Thoughts on Combined Surgery and confused about trans nasal wiring

[Guest guest]

> 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