It has been recognized that wrinkles on the forehead and lateral canthus and glabella develop and increase through skin change in the course of the normal aging process. Since the temporal lift 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 forehead lifts, chantges 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 in troduced the endoscopic
forehead
lift
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 bicoronal incision, but an expensive instrument is required. We treated five patients using 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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