Reconstructive rhytidectomy?

Abstract

Muscular dystrophies are commonly considered hereditary progressive degenerative diseases that affect skeletal and cardiac muscles. Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy is a rare hereditary disorder of later onset consisting of progressive dysphagia and bilateral blepharoptosis unlike the peripheral muscular weakness common to other muscular dystrophies. The symptoms of progressive dysphagia, with bilateral ptosis, usually occur after the age of 40 years. The authors present a patient with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy and chronic facial pain relieved by midface soft tissue support, namely, the reconstructive rhytidectomy.