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Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Case Study Open Access Temporary ectropion therapy by adhesive taping: a case study 1 2 Thomas Schrom* and Anke Habermann Address: 1Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Helios Clinics Bad Saarow, Germany and 2Department of Ophthalmology, Martin-Luther- University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Email: Thomas Schrom* - thomas.schrom@gmx.de; Anke Habermann - anke.habermann@medizin.uni-halle.de * Corresponding author Published: 21 July 2008 Received: 10 January 2008 Accepted: 21 July 2008 Head Face Medicine 2008, 4:12 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-4-12 This article is available from: /content/4/1/12 © 2008 Schrom and Habermann; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction: Various surgical procedures are available to correct paralytic ectropion, which are applied in irreversible facial paresis. Problems occur when facial paresis has an unclear prognosis, since surgery of the lower eyelid is usually irreversible. We propose a simple method to correct temporary ectropion in facial palsy by applying an adhesive strip. Patients and methods: Ten patients with peripheral facial paresis and paralytic ectropion were treated with an