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Comment
. 2016 May;36(5):546-9.
doi: 10.1093/asj/sjw019. Epub 2016 Mar 1.

Commentary on: Total Composite Flap Facelift and the Deep-Plane Transition Zone: A Critical Consideration in SMAS-Release Midface Lifting

Sam T Hamra  1
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Commentary on: Total Composite Flap Facelift and the Deep-Plane Transition Zone: A Critical Consideration in SMAS-Release Midface Lifting

Sam T Hamra. Aesthet Surg J. 2016 May.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
(A) The direction of all lateral vector facelifts. (B) The direction of contralateral composite facelifts.
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Figure 2.
Preoperative (A) and 12 month postoperative (B) photographs of a 45-year-old woman from the author's Supplementary Figure 4. The height of the lower eyelid and the eyelid cheek junction are unchanged. From Mani.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Preoperative (A) and 12 month postoperative (B) photographs of a 66-year-old woman after composite facelift. Note the high cheek mass and the absent eyelid cheek junction.
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