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It may very well be that eyelid surgery to change the shape of your eyes might be helpful. However you diagnosis many or may not be correct. Also it is critically important that your potential surgeon truly understands you concerns.
It may or may not be possible, depending on your exact anatomy, age, ethnicity. A photo would be useful. Consult an oculoplastic surgeon.
It is possible do lengthen the eyelid aperture horizontally via a canthopexy/canthoplasty procedure, but you should understand that the end result may not look very natural. Those procedures work best in a reconstructive setting, but if done for aesthetic reasons like you propose, you may end up quite unhappy. And it will be a situation were reversal may be near impossible. Think twice about this surgery, but if you'd like to post a photo, we can give you a more accurate recommendation.
A picture would be very helpful as there are a few congenital problems that cause this eyelid shape, otherwise it is likely just your genes. A lateral canthoplasty can be used to adjust the outside corner of the eyelids, changing their position or moving them out slightly. This is very dependent on your particular anatomy, so a consultation with an oculoplastic surgeon is a must.
It is not unusual to have this happen after lower eyelid surgery and there are things you can do that can help...massage and night taping are the most benign things to do and do help a lot and in some patients it can take awhile. But is severe cases I do send my patients to an opthamologist and...
Proptosis is the medical term used to describe bulgy eyes. It usually happens when the contents of the eye socket are too big for the bony volume of the eye socket. If you eyes have had this appearance your whole life, this is likely an anatomic variant that is sometimes referred to as a...
Removal of a suspicious eyelid lesion is usually covered by insurance but this does not include a blepharoplasty. If your upper eyelids are so droopy that they affect your vision, then an upper blepharoplasty is occasionally covered by insurance if you have objective testing data that shows an...