I'm insecure about my slightly protruding eyes but I don't want to get orbital decompression because of the high risks involved, in addiction to the fact I don't have grave disease. Would adding volume to the eye with graft implants and repairing the ptosis and lower eyelid retraction be enough to see significant improvement? Or would the results be disappointing without pushing back the eyeball?
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While revision surgery isn’t uncommon following eyelid procedures, each case is unique. Eyelid tissues can shift slightly over time as they heal, which may lead to asymmetry, especially since healing often continues beyond the initial months post-surgery. It’s often recommended to revisit you...
Smiling typically involves contraction of the zygomaticus muscles and slight contraction of the orbicularis muscle.
Both of these will some redundancy around the eyes.
From your pictures, you don’t have significant hooding of your upper eyelids and I don’t see any skin redundancy.
Botox can hel...
You have a mild negative canthal tilt, mild hooding of your upper eye-lids, moderate brow ptosis and some weakness of the lower eyelids.
A lot of this is due to skeletal structure.
Changing the lateral canthal insertion point is a tricky procedure.
There are procedures to address each of these...
