Uneven eyelids - what’s going on and what are my options? (photo)

Dear Fierce920723, I am sorry that you had a bad experience. I don’t think it means that you had a bad surgeon, however. I find that the phenylephrine test is most useful, for me, as a teaching tool when discussing surgery with patients. I am not convinced that the quantitative outcome of the P...

For significant improvement, hooded eyelids require surgery if there is enough skin. For nonsurgical treatments: Radiofrequency (Thermage or Venus Legacy/Viva), injectable fillers, and a Botox brow lift can help contour the eyebrows and lift the eyelid skin. I recommend getting a formal...

Before embarking on any additional surgeries, you may wish to consult with a board certified cosmetic dermatologist about the recently FDA approved topical prescription eye drops specifically for treating eyelid ptosis. Hope this helps and best of luck.

In these photos it looks like you have a ptosis of both upper eyelids, worse on the right. You should see an oculoplastic surgeon who can evaluate the eyelid muscles to determine what surgery would be best to elevate the lids.

This is a awful surgery that destroys the upper eyelid and makes it virtually impossible to subsequently repair the upper eyelid. Surgeons who do this are throwing up their hands and giving up on the eyelid. I have never seen an acceptable fix with so-called full thickness ptosis repair. The...

If anything you appear to have a tiny bit of upper eyelid retraction. Careful study of the before and after pictures suggest you have lost a small amount of volume in the upper eyelid fold. The most common cause of this would be the use of a prostaglandin eyelash growth product. I believe that...