Planning a blepharoplasty, revision rhinoplasty & chin implant at the same time. Had rhinoplasty & chin implant 17 years ago. Chin implant was too big & crooked. Also had a small implant put in the nose as well which ended up moving and removed a few years ago. After the nose bridge collapsed so will put in another nose implant. Are these 3 procedures ok to have together, how much healing time will it take and will I be able to sit in the sun? I will be traveling 40 days after surgery Thx!
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July 2, 2014
Answer: Combination of aesthetic procedures on the face including eyelid surgery is common.
Under eye hyper-pigmentation can often be improved with IPL (intense pulse light) laser or q-switched laser (see below). IPL works nicely for this and is often combined with steroid cream to prevent further inflammatory hyper-pigmentation during the healing phase. Avoiding the sun is...
It does appear that you have congenital bulgy eyes that can benefit from cosmetic orbital decompression. Orbital decompression is not only for patient with thyroid eye disease.
Dear Sophia,
It is a common human craniofacial
variant to have a large orbit and a relatively sunken socket. Within soft tissue over the lower aspect of
the orbital rim, the craniofacial orbital structures can become quite
apparent. Judging from your photo, you
do have what is commonly...