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blepharoplasty
Medicine and Society
Dec 2010

Blepharoplasty in Asian Patients: Ethnic and Ethical Implications

Kiran Motaparthi, MD
Because blepharoplasty on Asian patients, also known as a double-eyelid operation, has the controversial potential to alter characteristically ethnic features, physicians must ask patients why they are seeking these procedures.
Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(12):946-949. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.12.msoc1-1012.
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