Traditional medicine is the sum total of knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures that are used to maintain health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, improve or treat physical and mental illnesses. Traditional medicine that has been adopted by other populations (outside the indigenous culture) is often termed alternative or c...

PURPOSE To compare surgical outcomes of internal (transconjunctival) vs external (subciliary) involutional entropion repair. DESIGN Retrospective, consecutive case series. METHODS Electronic medical record review of all patients who underwent involutional entropion repair at the Jules Stein Eye Institute over a 4-year period was performed. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Anatomic and functional suc...

Aim to present the results of author's treatment method for postoperative complications in lower eyelid after blepharoplasty.
 Material and methods. Patients period blepharoplasty were included study (n = 11). All patients had age-related changes skin upper eyelids before surgery. After surgery, a complication form an inversion eyelid. In early (up 6 months), all with ectropion underwent t...

The results of 37 medial canthal resection procedures performed for the correction of severe paralytic or involutional medial ectropion are presented with an average follow-up of 5.4 years. Epiphora was improved in 33 out of the 37 cases and all but one patient had an anatomically improved lid-globe apposition, medial canthal angle, and posterofixation of the medial canthus. These results confi...