I had undergone upper blepharoplasty 8 months ago. I’m generally pleased with the results but bother my the fold cover the inner corner of my left eye which makes the right lid height smaller than the left. Would revision surgery help this asymmetry? Do you think the results are acceptable? I appreciate your professional input. Thank you.
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Answer: Upper eyelid crease shape during Asian blepharoplasty and double eyelid surgery
The amount of asymmetry that you have remaining is slight, and likely not worth the risk of pursuing an immediate revision at this time if you've already had 3 surgeries recently as one of the main risks of surgery would be for crease asymmetry of some sort to remain.
Medically this should not matter. At 3 weeks anticipate moderate bleeding, like a very heavy period that will last for 5-7 days. This may lower your hemoglobin, but not significantly. Take iron supplementation if you are vegetarian. Skin-only upper bleph under local anesthesia is a bloodless...
I didn't see where you mentioned how long post-op you are, but based on your scar it appears somewhat recent. 5-fluoruacil would be an option as you mentioned, as would massage and tincture of time. As long as the fixation sutures were well-placed, I would expect the lash to return to a normal...