[Lengthening temporalis myoplasty].

Use of the temporal muscle to raise the lips is a very old technique. In 1934, Gillies folded the temporal muscle over the zygoma to the lip subcutaneously. In 1952, MacLaughlin proposed to attach the temporal muscle tendon to the lips. With this aponeurotic relay there is a risk of lengthening and necrosis, the main cause of long-term failure. Taking inspiration from Maclaughlin, lengthening myoplasty lowers the temporal muscle as a whole descending the tendon to the lip, thus obtaining lengthening from the posterior part.