Foundational Papers in Oculoplastics

Dr. Sathyadeepak (Deepak) Ramesh, MD is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in Orbital and Oculofacial Plastic Surgery. He is in private practice in Somerset, NJ, and is a member of the Orbital and Oculoplastics Service at Wills Eye Hospital. After completing his residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dr. Ramesh was selected to pursue a two-year oculofacial, orbital, cosmetic, and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the prestigious Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he trained under the auspices of world-class surgeons at UCLA and Beverly Hills.
 Dr. Ramesh has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters in topics including thyroid eye disease, orbital tumors, vascular malformations, facial fracture repair, endoscopic skull base surgery, and facial cosmetic surgery, pioneered new surgical techniques, presented at national and international meetings, and has served as a faculty instructor for the annual Orbital Surgery Master's Symposium and the Aesthetic Eyelid and Facial Rejuvenation Courses.

Part I. Facial Aesthetics.- Midfacial Aging - Deflation or Descent?.-  The Fat Compartments of the Face: Anatomy and Clinical Implications for Cosmetic Surgery.- Lower Eyelid Blepharoplasty.- Endoscopic Brow Lift: A Personal Review of 538 Patients and Comparison of Fixation Techniques.- The Deep-Plane Rhytidectomy.-  Tumescent Technique for Local Anesthesia Improves Safety in Large-Volume Liposuction .- Structural Fat Grafting: More than a Permanent Filler.- Pulsed Carbon Dioxide Laser Resurfacing of Photoaged Facial Skin.-  Treatment of Glabellar Frown Lines with C. Botulinum-A Exotoxin .- Aesthetic and Restorative Midface Lifting with Hand-Carved, Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene Orbital Rim Implants .- Dermal Fillers for the Oculofacial Plastic Surgeon.- Part II. Facial Anatomy.- Orbital Anatomy.- Eyelid Anatomy.-  Facial Anatomy.-  Part III. Facial Dystonia.- Blepharospasm and Facial Dystonia.- Treatment of Blepharospasm With Botulinum Toxin .- Blepharospasm Surgery.- Part IV. Eyelid Disorders.- Ptosis.- Lagophthalmos.- Entropion/Ectropion.- Lower Eyelid Retraction.- The Floppy Eyelid Syndrome.- Corneal Neurotization.- Part V. Infectious Disease.- Bacterial Infectious Disease.- Fungal Infectious Disease.- Part VI. Inflammatory Disease.- Nonspecific Orbital Inflammatory Disease .- IgG4-Related Orbital Disease.- Extraocular Muscle Enlargement.- Observations on Prostaglandin Orbitopathy.- Minocycline Effect on Meibomian Gland Lipids in Meibomianitis Patients.- Part VII. Lacrimal Disorders.- Tear Dynamics.- Treatment of Epiphora.- Microbiology of Infection.- Lacrimal Sac Tumors.- Part VIII. Oncology and Periorbital Lesions.- Micrographic Surgery for the Microscopically Controlled Excision of Eyelid Cancer.- Survey of 1264 Patients with Orbital Tumors and Simulating Lesions.- Sebaceous Carcinomas of the Ocular Adnexa: A Clinicopathologic Study of 104 cases, with Five-Year Follow-up Data.- Orbital Adnexal Lymphoma.- Targeted Therapy for Cutaneous Malignancies.- Lacrimal Gland Carcinoma.- Vascular Lesions.- Part IX. Periorbital Reconstruction.- Eyelid Reconstruction.- Part X. Thyroid Eye Disease.- Epidemiology of Thyroid Eye Disease.- Steroids and Thyroid Eye Disease.- Orbital Radiation for Thyroid Eye Disease.- Biologics for Thyroid Eye Disease.- Orbital Decompression for Thyroid Eye Disease.- Part XI. Facial Trauma and the Anophthalmic Socket.-  Oculofacial Trauma.-Wooden Intraorbital Foreign Body Injuries: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of 23 Patients.- The Silent Sinus Syndrome: A Cause of Spontaneous Enophthalmos.- Anophthalmic Socket.