ANATOMICAL FEATURES OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE UPPER EYELIDS IN ASIANS DURING AESTHETIC UPPER BLEFAROPLASTY. LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction: In the recent years the number of aesthetic surgeries in Kazakhstan has been growing steadily. Most of female patients have shown interest in correction of the upper eyelid zone. Classical operations on Europeanization of the eyelids represent one of the surgeries highly demanded in Kazakhstan. Since the country is located at the junction of Asia and Europe, anthropologically modern Kazakhstan inhabitants have clear mixed features of Caucasian and Mongoloid races. We did not find any domestic clinical studies on the topic where one can find discussions on this matter. Therefore, this problem serves as the basis for deeper study of the issue being subjest of this document. The aim: The study is aimed at presentation of review of the literary sources of the last 20 years relating to improvement of outcomes of aesthetic upper blepharoplasty in Kazakhstan, taking into account anatomical characteristics of people living on the given territory. Research strategy included the search for literary sources on the research topic, indexed in the electronic library databases: e-Library, Pubmed, Web of Science and Scopus. With a purpose of compiling the review, we have studied publications brought to light over the past 20 years, namely from 2001 to 2021 (however, there are 8 articles published respectively in 1952, 1970, 1963, 1992, 1980, 1956, 1989, 1991). The original language - English and Russian. A total of 89 publications were analyzed, incuding 45 articles corresponding to the objectives of the present study. Results: The term "Asians" is commonly used to refer to people who are originally from Asia. However, Asia is a home for different ethnic groups and races with different facial morphologies. Asians from India or Asians from Japan or Thailand differ significantly. We did not find any international or domestic clinical studies on relating to upper blepharoplasty for the Eurasian face type of individuals living on the territory of modern Kazakhstan. An in depth study of this topic would help to improve the way of perioperative management of patients after aesthetic upper blepharoplasty.