I had hyper thyroid for years. My blood work is normal now and I am off the meds. But it affected my eyes. At times they seem better. But with stress, bad sleep and etc they get worse immediately. Surgery would be the last resort for me. For now I was thinking to inject restylane under eyes. The doctor didn't give me promise to get my lower eye lid to go up, he said it will improve my look for sure, but he doesn't know by how much. Is it worth my time and money to try that?
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I assume that an external approach to the lower eyelid was
done which meant making an incision underneath the eyelashes called a
transcutaneous blepharoplasty. Part of your surgery involved removal of some
skin. Once that is done, there is some loss of tone in a muscle called the
orbicularis...
You will need to see an experienced oculoplastic surgeon as this will not be an easy fix. With this amount of scleral show, and no apparent excess skin, you will probably need both a spacer graft for the inside portion of the lid, and a skin graft on the outside. Hard palate is an excellent...
Enduragen will generally take about 6 months to achieve it final result. This level of overcorrection at about a month is absolutely normal.
Surgeons that use Enduragen routinely understand the amount of shrinkage involved and it is not guesswork. Once you have developed experience with...
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