Could You Please Tell Me What Unroofed Means if I Have Milia After Eye Surgery?

The bottom line is a milia is a small plug of dead skin cells trapped under the actual skin surface.  It usually is contained in a cyst.  These cysts slowly grow until they are visible.  It is a simple matter of using a sharp instrument like the tip of a needle or a pointed scalpel to make a tiny nick in the skin over the milia.  With a little gentle pressure, the milia in its entirety is the expressed out.  No stitch is needed for this this to heal.  If you have ever had an extraction facial, the facialist often performs this procedure to remove trapped white heads.  It is difficult to characterize this as a "surgical" procedure.  It is relatively common to need help with milia after eyelid surgery as to be routine and the procedure should be very comfortable.

Sometimes after surgery, tiny little cysts occur at the sites where sutures were used. "Unroofing" the milia simply means to decapitate, or cut off the top of the cyst so that the contents can come out and no longer form a cyst.

Hope this explanation helps.