Efficient Oculofacial Surgery

This textbook provides an overview of minimal complexity “scalpel and suture” surgery with instruction on effective and direct surgical solutions. Interventions that avoid expensive or otherwise unavailable equipment, devices, or pharmaceuticals are highlighted throughout the textbook, for instance, with a focus on autologous grafts in lieu of implants or devices that add cost or complexity. Safe and efficient surgical treatments are featured in each chapter covering a complete spectrum of periorbital conditions.

Efficient Oculofacial Surgery focuses upon safety and ergonomics measures that not only improve the quality of orbit, eyelid, and lacrimal surgeries, but also forestall serious misadventures such as an operating room fires or other iatrogenic patient injuries. In addition, concise tips and surgical pearls that add to the armamentarium of both novice and experienced surgeons are featured at the end of each chapter. 

1. Introduction.- 2. Principles, Ergonomics, and Safety in Oculofacial Surgery.- 3. Skin and Tissue Techniques.- 4. Repair of Full Thickness Upper Eyelid Defects.- 5. Repair of Full Thickness Lower Eyelid Defects.- 6. Medial Canthus Reconstruction.- 7. Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty.- 8. Upper Eyelid Ptosis Repair – Anterior Approach.- 9. Upper Eyelid Ptosis Repair – Posterior Approach.- 10. Upper Eyelid Ptosis Repair in Poor Levator Function.- 11. Ectropion Repair.- 12. Entropion Repair.- 13. Lower Eyelid Retraction.- 14. Oculofacial Surgery in Facial Paralysis.- 15. Brow and Forehead Surgery.

Jeremiah Tao, MD, FACS is a professor and the director of oculofacial plastic and orbital surgery at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. Professor Tao is a leader in the oculofacial plastic surgery discipline. He was the national scientific meetings program chair for the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. For the American Board of Ophthalmology, he was the subspecialty liaison, serves on the oculoplastics exam writing committee, and is an oral board examiner. For the American Academy of Ophthalmology, he was elected to the Ophthalmic Technology Assessments Committee – Oculoplastics and Orbit Panel that systematically reviews and reports standards for clinical practice. Professor Tao’s research covers clinical aspects of orbit, eyelid, and lacrimal surgery as well as graduate medical education and operating room safety. He has trained many oculofacial plastic surgeons in the US and around the world. He has written hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters and he has given national and international lectures.