The correction of a thickened and deep nasolabial fold and commissural and juxta-commissural buccal lesions constitutes one of the principal difficulties of the malar phase of a cervicofacial face-lift. However, the correlation of these lesions is important as ptosis of the nasolabial fold and labial commissures is an almost constant early sign of aging. This correction is the objective of the anterior malo-labial face-lift.
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