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It has been recognized that wrinkles on the forehed and lateral cnathus and glabella develop and increase through skin change in the coures of the normal aging process. Since the temporal life to correct skin laxity in the lateral canthus area was introduced by Passot in 1919, several surgical methods have been introduced to correct skin laxity due to aging. In conventional forhead lifts, changes resulting from aging were corrected by excising laxed skin after division of the frontalis, corrugator and procerus muscles using bicoronal incision. Parallel with the development of endoscopy, noninvasive methods of diagnosis and therapy have been introduced and developed. In plastic surgery, Vasconez introduced the endoscopic forehead life in 1992. He obtained better results than the conventional method without the excision of the laxed skin. The corrugator, procerus and frontalis were divided with a few small incisions. The advantage of this method is that there are small scars and it avoids bicornal incisions, but and expensive instrument is required. We treated five patients usign the endoscopic forehead lifts between 1994 and 1995. In constrast to other endoscopic forehead lift, we use a 2-0 nylon as a suspension technique for elevated flap and report the cases with in a discussion and review of the literature.
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