[Lari Plastic Surgery] Epicanthic Fold Restoration That Preserves the Mongolian Fold

The epicanthic fold is the muscle surrounding the eyeball that shows through the skin,

and it is a major reason the inner corner of the eye looks covered and stuffy.

That is why people undergo inner corner surgery to cut and remove this epicanthic fold.

For some eyes, inner corner surgery creates a refreshing, elongated look and produces good results, but for others, it can make the eyes appear too close together,

leave the inner corners overly exposed and create an unwanted out-line double eyelid, and above all, it can result in eyes that look obviously operated on.

This is exactly such a case.

Due to inner corner surgery, the patient had an overly exposed out-line double eyelid, and the inner corner of the eye was revealed too sharply,

so apart from making the eyes look longer, the eyes looked closer together, creating a typical surgical appearance.

For that reason, epicanthic fold restoration surgery was performed to create a more natural eye shape.

Epicanthic fold restoration surgery is intended to block and restore excessively exposed caruncle tissue, and to move a double-eyelid line that extended into an out-line shape back into an in-line shape, among other effects.

However, because inner corner restoration is largely a procedure that closes what has been opened, it is uncommon to reproduce a sharply pointed shape itself or the downward-facing flare of the epicanthic fold again.

In this patient, the inner corner had been opened a lot, but the caruncle exposure was not severe, so the epicanthic fold was restored without covering the caruncle too much, and the double eyelid was moved into an in-line shape.

If the amount of restoration is large, the pulling of the skin may cause

the inner corner shape to turn slightly rounded even if that is not desired,

but because the degree of caruncle exposure was not severe,

the surgery was performed with restoration limited to moving the double eyelid inward, and because the original epicanthic fold remained below the eye,

it was possible to recreate the epicanthic fold through restoration.

The eye with the epicanthic fold restored looks as if it had not undergone inner corner surgery, without an obvious surgical appearance, while neatly separating the eyes and naturally widening the previously narrow space between the eyes.