Issues post upper eyelid surgery. Would canthopexy be helpful in correcting the look? (Photo)

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I believe the right eye opens too much and the left eye has now a mild ptosis making my eyes overly asymmetrical. I am not interested in having a full corrective procedure but I was wondering if maybe a Canthopexy would be helpful in helping correcting the look?

Kenneth D. Steinsapir, MD · Answer

A detailed in person assessment is needed to understand the  subtles of what is going on with your eyelids. Both creases are too high and it is likely that your central levator is disinserted on the left side. This can cause a compensatory retraction on the opposite side which is part of Herring's law of equal innervation to both muscles that raises the upper eyelid margin. Canthoplasty is used to address the position of the lateral canthus. It can reanchor and reshape and upper eyelid but is seldom strong enough to lower an eyelid. To move the upper eyelid margin, the levator aponeurosis tendon needs to be surgically addressed.

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