【Invited Lecture】Analyses of the Characteristics of Japanese Facial Curves and Creating Templates for the Plastic Surgical Reconstruction

Abstract

In the plastic surgery operation to the patient who lost a part of face (an eye, an ear, an external nose, a cheek, etc.) by an external injury etc., regularity of the form of the part reconstructed by operation is very important for the patient’s QOL. However, the curve of outline of the form is decided by the plastic surgeon's sensitivity, and the problem that the regularity changes greatly with the the plastic surgeons’ levels of skill and plastic senses has occurred now. Then, in collaboration with a plastic surgeon, I have analyzed the curves of outlines (sections) of the forms (an eye, an ear, an external nose, a philtrum), and classified those curves in the latest several years. Moreover, I introduce the examples of development the templates using the result and application to the actual plastic surgery operation.