My face is asymmetrical I want to cry. What can be done to help?

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I will show you a picture I won't need to explain much more. What can I do to help the symmetry of my face? Especially the eyes. It upsets me so. I'm only 22!

Matthew Bridges, MD, FACS · Answer

You're beautiful and I do need to explain much more.  Everyone, as in everyone, has asymmetries in their face.  If you showed your picture to 100 people, none of the 100 would be able to see what bothers you.  Believe me - coming from a facial plastic surgeon, I would probably not have noticed your asymmetry until you pointed it out.  Your eyes are beautiful.  That said, I do not mean to minimize your concerns.  If it bothers you, that's all that matters.  I say this to patients seeking minor changes with rhinoplasty all the time.  Some filler might be useful to even the sides out a bit.  However,  I would caution you from doing anything radical, ie facial implants, at this point.  You are very young and very critical of your appearance.  You need to look deeper than your facial asymmetry and see if there is something else going on, ie depression, that is making you be so hard on yourself.  Not to sound sappy, but I think your eyes, although beautiful, look sad.  I write all this with the utmost sincerity.  Please think about it.  The title of your post, "My face is asymmetrical I want to cry", says it all...

Darryl J. Blinski, MD · Answer

Maybe a series of HA Voluma injections to left side of face might improve easily. Otherwise fat grafts could offer an answer.

Thomas M. DeWire Sr., MD (retired) · Answer

Hayleyhilai, First of all, the degree of asymmetry that you speak of is found in a large number of faces, and actually it is unusual to find a face that is perfectly symmetrical. Couple that with the lighting, as cross lighting (from only one side) actually introduces spurious findings due to shadow differences and not so much due to anatomical asymmetries.  Lastly, normal behavioral facial expression often introduces asymmetries, particularly of the brows, where the muscles are postured asymmetrically as a learned behavior.  I do not see any glaring asymmetries that compromise the aesthetics of your face, and thus in a situation like yours I would not recommend any intervention.  To see a really asymmetrical face in a beautiful woman, look up photos of Lauren Hutton on Google or Bing to see true facial asymmetry that is not very noticeable unless looked for.  I hope that this helps.

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