Joris van Dongen

204 Chapter 9 Figure 2. Locations of skin measurements, shown locations were marked before each measurement. Patients lay down on an examination table to enable correct Cutometer probe placement. Location I: 2cm lateral and 2 cm caudal from the lateral canthus. Locations II: 2 cm lateral from the lateral commisure. Procedures At the operating theater, with the patient mildly sedated, 30cc of whole blood was drawn from the patient, with an additional 2cc for platelet analysis. Following the pre- trial randomization, opening of the envelope determined whether the whole blood was either discarded, or introduced into the Biomet GPSIII device for PRP isolation (3cc PRP output) following the manufactures protocol. 3cc of sterile saline was used as placebo control. Lipoharvesting, processing and lipofilling were performed following the standard Coleman method: however, both the lipoharvesting - and lipofilling cannulas were