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Thank you for your question.Orbital decompression is almost always covered by insurance. I highly recommend seeing an ASOPRS-trained oculoplastic surgeon for this type of surgery. Best of luck!!
Usually if the surgery is required to prevent visual loss, medical insurance will cover the cost of surgery. If the surgery is being performed to reduce a prominent eye for appearance sake, then it is unlikely to be covered. Hope this helps and best of luck.
It's hard to tell definitively from the photos, but that appears to be prolapsed orbital fat, or fat which normally surrounds your eye as protective covering that has migrated outside its usual position. This is a slightly odd location as these are more commonly seen at the superior lateral...
I don't agree at all that your situation is fixable with fillers or fat. You have a common condition called ptosis, in which your left eye muscle is slightly detached or is weaker than the opposite side. This weakness causes the left brow to lift higher, trying to help the left lid open better. ...
This depends on your surgeon as he/she will have a different protocol to follow. Depending on the rate of healing of a patient, he/she is allowed to do light exercises at 2 weeks post-op, while strenuous exercises are not advised until after a month. Your best resource of information would be...
The treatment is performed lightly. The procedure has been featured on shows like The Doctors. The video is a bit misleading. It provides minimal skin tightening and that does make a change in the upper eyelid fold so proponents claim an eyelid lift effect. However, the result does not nec...
The answer is "yes". Asymmetry of the upper lids is common and it is possible to change one or both eyelid crease levels. We often do "Westernization" or double eyelid surgery particularly in the Asian (or non-Asian) patient who desire a fold where one is absent. Sutures are used to...
Swelling may make I bags appear to return early after surgery.However if your surgeon left the repositioned fat attached to its blood vessels in the fat pad then in some cases with eye closure and blinking the fat can be pulled back up into the eye socket by the attachment. I recommend that ...
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