meloplasty

plural meloplasties

1. medicineThe operation of restoring or repairing a cheek which has been wholly or partially destroyed.

   Acquired macrostoma, from defects following noma, for instance, is remedied according to the rules for cheiloplasty (see § 31) or meloplasty (see § 33) .

   1897, Hermann Tillmanns, Lewis Atterbury Stimson, A Text-book of Surgery: Regional surgery, page 235

2. medicineThe surgical lifting and repositioning the tissues in the cheeks and lower eyelids to create a more youthful appearance.

   In secondary meloplasty, it is presumed that the patient is several years older than at the time of the primary meloplasty, at least for the routine secondary procedures.

   1984, Symposium on Problems and Complications in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery of the Face, page 183

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   When the original face-lift has been performed and it pulls down on the earlobe, a tight, tapered lobe often follows. It is unsightly and makes difficult a secondary meloplasty without an obvious scar below the lobe.

   2009, Berish Strauch, Luis O. Vasconez, M.d., Elizabeth J. Hall-Findlay, Grabb's Encyclopedia of Flaps - Volume 1