Is surgery the only solution for a hooded eye or can the issue be removed with exercise? (Photos)

Before embarking on any additional surgeries, you may wish to consult with a board certified cosmetic dermatologist about the recently FDA approved topical prescription eye drops specifically for treating eyelid ptosis. Hope this helps and best of luck.

In these photos it looks like you have a ptosis of both upper eyelids, worse on the right. You should see an oculoplastic surgeon who can evaluate the eyelid muscles to determine what surgery would be best to elevate the lids.

This is a awful surgery that destroys the upper eyelid and makes it virtually impossible to subsequently repair the upper eyelid. Surgeons who do this are throwing up their hands and giving up on the eyelid. I have never seen an acceptable fix with so-called full thickness ptosis repair. The...

If anything you appear to have a tiny bit of upper eyelid retraction. Careful study of the before and after pictures suggest you have lost a small amount of volume in the upper eyelid fold. The most common cause of this would be the use of a prostaglandin eyelash growth product. I believe that...

My father, an internist from Brooklyn, liked to say: "If the butcher tells you the meat is bad, you should listen." Sometimes when a surgeon tells you that something can't be done or that you do not need it, what they are really telling you is that their work is not going to be satisfactory to...

You should wait 6 months before doing anything. It looks like you had an external approach the first time. On the lower side you do have a low secondary crease. Since you want to tighten the lid crease to eliminate the lower one, you would need to go through the external approach. So it...