Ptosis surgery gone wrong? (Photo)

Dry eye after ptosis surgery is quite common. The severity of dryness post-operatively will be influenced by how much dryness there was pre-operatively and how much more open your eyes are after surgery. Your surgeon should have assessed your dry eye symptoms and exam pre-operatively and...

Ptosis repair involves permanently elevating and resetting the actual lid position of the upper eye(s). It is performed when the lid's base position is too droopy. As this conditions worsens, one's vision can be impaired since the pupil (which registers the actual vision) can eventually be o...

Best to see an oculoplastic surgeon for evaluation. It is unlikely that things will change now that is 3 months after surgery. Revision surgery may be possible.

Yes rubbing eyelids is very bad for eyelids and eyes.  We think eye rubbing brakes down connective tissue.  Rubbing the eyelid too early after surgery tears the surgery apart.  As I noted there is a place for massage when needed is certain circumstances.  However, it is a mistake to enc...

If you have already had a maximal levator resection, then yes, a frontalis sling will be your only option to correct your ptosis. In your photo, it appears you are hiking the eyebrows to compensate for the ptosis. You would be in control of when and by how much the eyes open depending on...

The main advantage of posterior ptosis surgery is not the scarless result (although that is nice) but it is more predictable results with better eyelid contour. However, not everybody is a candidate for it and not every surgeon uses it. See following video and link.  Revision blepharoplasty can ...