Can you fix a lower lid retraction without surgery? (photos)

Lower eyelid ectropion or retraction repair should NOT make the eyes smaller with proper canthoplasty technique. Most of the work should be on the lower eyelids themselves rather than the canthus.

Hard palate graft or any other internal eyelid spacer graft is not the main determining factor in surgery success for lower eyelid retraction repair. The actual lift of the lower eyelid is critical.

Personal consultation is necessary. See following website link and video for more details on lower eyelid retraction surgery. Sometimes additional adjunctive treatments are also beneficial such as under eye orbital rim implant. The goal is to reduce or eliminate sclera show with natural almond ...

Simply placing a hard palate graft to reconstruct the lower eyelid should lengthen the eyelid and impove its position on the globe.  However, It will not recruit skin and soft tissue into the eyelid.  This means that despite the surgical work, the weight of the cheek will continue to work a...

Hi there, Skin grafting is a technique that I usually associate with ectropion repair, not retraction repair, per se.  However, I am sure that is just a question of semantics.   Skin grafts can be tricky.  The best option is to use upper lid skin for lower lid grafting, if there...

Need photography to tell accurately what is going on. In general, it takes 3 months for eyelid healing, especially if spacer graft (ear cartilage) is placed. You can email me directly with photos if you want, so I can better help you. If no spacer graft was placed, healing would have been faster.