Senile orbit: concept and treatment

RESUMO

The authors describe the antomo-clinic alterations of the senile orbit, pathology with little description in medical literature. They say that the increase or decrase of the orbito-palpebral sulcus provokes, in association with occular collapse, the senile apperance. They emphasize the opening of the orbital periosteum in order to achieve a fat herniation; and the treatment of the temporal fossa and of the prominence of the zygomatic arch. These approaching had not been described in the classic rhytidoplastic literature. Finally, the authors do not recomend the removal of periorbital fat from young skinny patients because the orbital clinic expectation would be worse at senility