I had a lower facelift with under eye blepheroplasty that has left me with dry eyes & is causing issues with my vision. My eyelids do not close fully anymore. Maybe the skin was pulled down away from my eyes as I now have a different appearance and often appear to have down syndrome type features in photos. I'm over 1 year post op. I've had 4 post op visits & my surgeon says be patient I'm still healing. Is this normal? Will it get better or can it be fixed?
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You are an absolute candidate for open neck deep plane lift, with the purpose to treat the underplatysma bulging: trimming only the bulging part of the gland, it is never a total removal, removing a portion of the digastric muscle, trimming the subplatysma fat which obviously can not be reached...
To make quality assessment we need quality pictures.
From what you’ve posted I don’t think a mini facelift is appropriate.
The underlying primary issue is more based on skeletal structure.
In particular the shape and size of your mandible.
Using soft tissue solutions to treat skeletal pro...
Some of these still look largely like typical post-surgical changes, although it is a bit long that you have had them. Have you been massaging/doing any lymphatic massage? Esp the last 2 photos suggest to me that those areas of pleating really just need to be massaged out. 1st and 4th pic also...