The eye socket is like a small room that is packed with tissue: the eye, eye muscles, fat, nerves and blood vessels.If the room is too small, the eye protrudes from the front of the room. There are two ways to counteract this: 1. Make the room bigger: This is a bony orbital decompression whereby you can expand the orbit by removing bone from one or more of the walls of the room.This is sounds scarier than it is. Its an outpatient procedure.2. Take tissue out of the eye socket to allow the eye to sink back in. The only tissue that can be safely removed is orbital fat.An experienced orbital surgeon may choose one or both of the options above depending on the amount of decompression is needed. As with any surgery, there are some risk. The main risk in decompression is double vision due to creation of an imbalance between the muscles that move the eye. The risk changes depending on how many walls are decompressed but ranges between 3-20%.A lateral decompression seems to be the safest in that it creates the smallest risk of double vision [less than 5%]I would recommend an in person consultationGood luck
