A distressing transformation has occurred in my upper eyelids post-lower blepharoplasty surgery have been extremely undesirable and have caused significant concern for me.
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Thank you for your question and for sharing your photographs. The most precise mechanism to determine whether there is still injectable filler in the lower eyelids would be an MRI scan. However, it is somewhat difficult to justify this considering the problem you are still experiencing.
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You are relatively recent from surgery. In my experience the shortness in these lids is from deep scaring in the eyelid not a relative lack of skin. Don't get talked into a skin graft. These are disfiguring and often do not resolve the weak eyelid closure. The blepharoplasty also can cause...
Thank you for your question. In general, upper-eyelid scars have a tendency to improve spontaneously. The cycle of scar tissue remodeling stretches over approximately 12 months and occasionally longer.
The reason why practitioners are uncomfortable with steroid injections for upper-eyelid scars...