Abstract: Implications of Upper Eyelid Ptosis and Blepharodermatochalasis on Fixed Horizontal Forehead Lines (original) (raw)

GOALS/PURPOSE: In this age of globalization, patients may seek to have their aesthetic surgeries performed in foreign countries anticipating significant cost-savings compared to perceived prohibitive out-of-pocket costs in the US. Given the transient nature of their stay in the country of surgery, post-operative follow-up is often sub-optimal. These patients frequently seek care in the US for complications, the burden falling on the US healthcare system. Non-standardization of aseptic surgical facilities and technique leads to an increased risk of infectious complications. Management of these complications represents a resource burden to the healthcare system and poses a clinical danger to the general population. Travel and surgery in uncontrolled settings, with their disparate macro-biomes, facilitates translocation of potentially dangerous infectious microbiota. This study investigated the microbiological data from a series of patients who sustained infectious complications from t...