Can Severed Eyelid Muscles Be Reattached and Repaired?

Having a hollow appearance to the upper lids can be a result of aging or simply the way you're built. In your case, as a young woman, this is simply your genetic appearance. Let me start by saying that your eyes are lovely and not unattractive in any way. However, your opinion of yourself is...

Dry eye after blepharoplasty or ptosis surgery is usually temporary.  Tears are made up of three components, water, oil and mucous.  The oil and mucous components of the tears originate mostly from the smaller glands which are located in the lid margin.  Swelling will cause these...

Though not very common, webbing in the inner (medial) part of the eye does happen in some patients healing from an upper eyelid lift. More often than not it is the result of the scar line contracting and creating a tense scar. The best treatment for this is the hardest one for a patient to...

Thank you for your question.  Please ask your plastic surgeon for their protocol, however I advice my patients to shower and wash their hair as normal, making sure that all products are thoroughly rinsed out.  To prevent any infection as well, a good idea would be to dry incisions with a hair d...

Ptosis surgery is where the upper eyelid elevating muscle is tightened to lift the height of the lid (distance of lid margin where lashes are to the pupil). It truly opens the eyes. This can be a cosmetic or functional surgery depending on degree of lid droop. This is more complex than...

The bottom line is no. Typically in the upper lids we try to preserve as much fat as possible. The area near the nose often has a pea sized bit of fat we remove to prevent a bulge there The lower eyes can have a procedure to tighten the wall that has weakened (septum orbitale) to hold the fat...