Eyelid reconstruction with temporal skinplastic

Eyelid reconstruction of large defects is a difficult undertaking in small animal surgery. Instead of performing the well known Roberts and Bistner or Cuttler and Beard methods, we have introduced the following method for eye lid correction in case of large lid defects. On the temporal part, laterall y (about the width of the eye) from the eye an uneffected skin flap is iden tified, mobilized, rotated and placed into the missing part of the eyelid. Conjunctiva (with slow resorbing) and skin (with non resorbing) 1 metric ma terial are separately adapted. In a large number of patients this method ha s been proven to be superior to the other methods mentioned.