Dr. Blaydon is a very skilled and experienced physician who gives each patient his best. During my surgery he was so very thorough and patient. He took his time to get it just right. I appreciated having him as my doctor. I am very pleased with the results. I highly recommend Dr. Blaydon for anyone needing occuloplastic consultation and surgery.
Dr Blaydon was exceptional in every way. The procedure was explained in a very comprehensive manner, and the surgery corrected my problem as advertised. I would recommend Dr Blaydon without reservation!
I'm scheduled to have upper and lower eyelid surgery June 2nd. I have a pre-op visit scheduled for May 16th. I'm excited and a little nervous about the pain during the procedures, but I'm determined to go through with it! I love this website. I've learned so many things. You people are so generous to share your stories and your photos. It is incredibly helpful to all of us researching a procedure! I will share my experience as well. Updated on 14 May 2017: Updated on 4 Jun 2017: Hello all. It is day 3. Due to circumstances beyond our control, in addition to recovering from upper and lower bleph surgery & upper ptosis repair, I am caring for my son's not quite 8 week old puppy. We have 2 dogs of our own and one of the, the boxer, is jealous of the new puppy so my time on the computer is limited. Anyway, I went in Friday to TOC Austin, the practice name for my surgeon Dr. Sean Blaydon. The office has it's own surgery room so the procedures were done right there. I was the second case for the morning and case 1 ran a bit over so my original start time was an hour late. Was scheduled to begin at 10 am. At 11 am, I was lead into the surgery room after changing into a gown, hospital socks, and the lovely hairnet in the first photo I believe. I layed down on the bed and the Anesthesiologist went right to work (she had introduced herself earlier & explained her plan for sedation). She inserted the needle in my hand, little prick-no pain and I went to sleep! Not general but local anesthetic! As explained earlier to me, at one point during the procedures, I was awakened just enough to follow the doctor's instructions to open my eyes, then close them, open again, and close. Then back to sleep for me! In what seemed like minutes, I was awakened and helped to sit in a recliner. My family was shown into the room and soon after that, a nurse helped me get my clothes back on and it was time to go! I was so pleased with the anesthetic! I thought I would feel the Lidocaine injections, but NO, not at all. No pain whatsoever! I also had a chemical peel applied to my face under my lower lids and top of my cheeks. That is the red on my face that you see in the photos. Also, there is purple marker still on my face below my lower lids that I am not able to get off yet. I was allowed to take a shower 24 hours after surgery. I shampooed with baby shampoo as was advised and only ran water over my eyes. So far, so good. Will post more in the next few days. Oh, and I am applying Erythromycin ointment 4 times a day for 7 days to my upper & lower stitches. I took pain pills the first 24 hours, but have not needed them since. Pain was/is minimal. Been sleeping in our recliner with puppy on my chest each night. Updated on 5 Jun 2017: Feels like a bad sunburn across my eyes. Very tight. Only hurts when I move my facial muscles around my eyes. Really not that bad considering surgery and stitches, etc. In all photos, I have the Erythromycin ointment all over my eyes. Bruises are turning yellow now. Updated on 6 Jun 2017: Updated on 7 Jun 2017: Updated on 8 Jun 2017: Updated on 9 Jun 2017: Updated on 11 Jun 2017: Updated on 11 Jun 2017: Updated on 11 Jun 2017: Updated on 14 Jun 2017: Updated on 19 Jun 2017: Still some pain on upper eyelids but only when I touch them. I still have some swelling, again, mostly upper eyelids so I am not where I (hope) I will be once it heals completely. There are some bumps at the end of the upper and lower incisions that I hope go away. I will post more later. Need to get to bed now. Updated on 22 Jun 2017: I have bumps at the end of a couple of my incisions. I believe the stitches have dissolved, now there are bumps on the scaring. Tomorrow will be 3 weeks since surgery. Also I have what looks like a pinch of skin on my right eyelid and it is pulling a piece of skin taut on my inner eyelid. Will these issues resolve in time? Updated on 22 Jun 2017: Here are pics of the pinch and stretched skin Updated on 22 Jun 2017: Another pic of the pinch Updated on 25 Jun 2017: Thank you to those of you that posted and educated me on massaging and using a cream. As time passes and healing progresses, I am starting to be concerned about scarring. Here are photos from today. Updated on 25 Jun 2017: Updated on 25 Jun 2017: Updated on 27 Jun 2017: Updated on 17 Jun 2018: I had upper & lower bleph surgery June 2 ,2017. Not counting my post op visit, I went back to my surgeon 9 times due to unsightly issues from my surgery. One visit, I received an injection for webbing. On the last visit, Jan 15 2018, my surgeon removed scar tissue from the incision lines. Of course the latter included several injections of lidocaine which were extremely painful, and more stitches. I would not call it revision surgery. I am not happy with the outcome & believe it should look better than it does. My right eye remains hooded which was the reason for the upper bleph in the first place! I know it's "only" been a year, but I still have visible scars on my upper lids from the incisions that cannot be hidden with eye shadow. I would like to hear from others who have had similar issues. I would also like for surgeons on this site to please advise me what to do now. The photos were taken today & show both eyes.
Autologous fat to the sub-brow region can add anterior projection in this area that is lost as we age. However, this will not significantly elevate your brows. It is clear that you do have brow/forehead descent with hooding of upper lid skin into your vision. This causes you to hyperelevate your forehead resulting in the horizontal creases in your forehead. You do have a slightly high hairline. In my opinion a pretrichial trichophytic forehead lift would solve many of these issues. It would elevate your forehead and brows reducing the hooding in your upper lids and decreasing the redundancy in the glabellar area. It would also lower your hairline and shorten the forehead slightly. The trichophytic nature of the incision promotes growth of hair through the incision making it less visible. Certainly judicious autologous fat grafting under the brows, in the glabellar area and temples can augment the appearance of the brows in combination with a forehead lift, but I don't believe fat injections alone will elevate the brows and achieve the results you are looking for.
I agree with others. It would be fine to perform either neurotoxin injections or forehead surgery after ptosis surgery. Check with your ptosis surgeon, but in general I recommend at least 6 weeks before undergoing Botox injections; especially in the glabellar area. Surgery in the eyelids can create potential spaces where the Botox can spread where it shouldn't. Would wait 2-3 months before forehead surgery.
There are two possibilities here. One possibility is that your ophthalmologist is correct if indeed the chalazia have resolved and there is no more inflammation. Sometimes patients are "sure" that their eyes appeared a certain way prior to a problem when in fact they may have had some mild asymmetry that they did not notice until an issue occurred and observed more closely. However, I suspect that a second possibility is more likely. Chalazia are caused by blocked oil glands within the eyelids that can result in chronic inflammation and swelling. Even if the chalazion is resolved, you might still have some mild inflammation and swelling causing subtle/mild ptosis or droop of the eyelid. Would wait this out for another 3-6 months. If the lid is still droopy, and this bothers you, seek an oculoplastic surgeon who can talk to you about ptodis surgery.
I agree with other comments. Everybody has a variable degree of facial asymmetry with a large and small side. It is mostly due to skeletal asymmetry. This results in differences in mid facial projection, orbit position, with asymmetry in lip position, eye position, and elevation of the brows. I spend a certain amount of time discussing these asymmetries with almost every patient. If you look for it in your friends, models and celebrities you will see it all the time. The only way to change the position of your eyes would be via orbital surgery, but this will change the relative position with the surrounding soft tissues and I would not recommend it.
There is no such thing as a "mini-incision" blepharoplasty. Surgeons using this term are using it as a marketing tool mimicking the small incision face lift techniques. All blepharoplasty incisions should be made in the upper lid crease (or where it should be if elevated in ptosis cases). Where a variation can be made is how far out laterally the incision is made. In older patients with significant lateral hooding the incision is carried out more laterally within a crease to adequately reduce lateral hooding. Your photos reveal little lateral hooding so the incision can be hidden completely within your lid crease and will give you a very natural appearance. Most plastic surgeons and certainly oculoplastics surgeons can talk to you more about this in detail.
