I had upper and lower blepharoplasty in August. I wear progressive glasses and, with my improved field of vision, the "accommodations" I had made (tipping my head back to see) are no longer necessary & my glasses seem a bit off. The correction seems to be unchanged, just not the location on the bi-focal portion of the lens as I am constantly lifting my frames off of my nose to manually adjust them. How long should I let this new view of the world settle in before visiting my optometrist?
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Thank you for sharing your concerns. Unfortunately, styes frequently reform after the seem to resolve. There is no reason to put your daughter through surgery with general anesthesia at this point. Kenelog should be injected into the lesion and it should resolve. Whether it disappears with the...
XAF5 seems to show promising preliminary results for non surgical facial reduction. The company which owns it, Topokine®, was recently purchased by Allergan, Inc (the compnay who owns Botox®) and therefore XAF5 has a good chance of obtaining FDA approval ASAP. Wheter it's worth delaying s...
The extra fold on an inner lid is called an epicanthal fold, and there are a number of surgical treatments that can be done in order to reduce it or reshape it. Historically, one approach was the Mustarde' jumping man incision. But most Epicanthal folds are normal variants, and familial traits....
