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Outdated Surgical Approach Leads to Bad Outcome

It has been a year since my upper and lower bleph. Dr Soparkar used (and told me he usually prefers) a transcutaneous approach to my lower lids. This means that instead of operating in a scarless fashion from inside the lid, he cuts through the skin under your lash line. In doing this, he necessarily cuts through the important support structure under your eye. This is the old way of doing eyelid surgery. Most even general plastic surgeons will no longer use this method bc it has an unacceptably high rate of complications. Dr Soparkar told me that in his hands it does not. Of course, he told me this after surgery. He did not tell me beforehand about the risks to this procedure bc he seems to think that when he does it there aren't any.
I immediately had eyelid retraction. My lower lid was pulled down, my lateral canthus on both eyes was lowered. My eye shape changed. This has proved to be permanent. It alters my appearance drastically. I do not recognize myself in the mirror.
Dr Soparkar denies that anything he did surgically could have brought about these changes. It is just a coincidence that I used to have a different eye shape and then immediately after surgery with him it changed. He claims that I have thyroid eye disease and blames that for the state of my eyes. But no labs or any other oculoplast or specialist in thyroid eye disease agrees. They all say that Soparkar is trying to evade responsibility for what he did.
If I had any idea that my eye shape could change from this procedure I would never have done it. I went to an oculoplast bc I wanted an eyelid specialist to help give me a refresh to my under eye bags. I believe I found the only oculoplast that would have operated in this fashion on sub a young patient as myself.
You can tell a lot about a doctor by how they handle a poor outcome or a complication. I wanted to trust in him, but it became clear over the ensuing months that I had selected a man to operate on my face who is not to be trusted. He was cold and totally uncaring about what he had done to me. Having a conversation with him starts to feel like playing Whose on First, as he slips around answering questions.
I have since found out that other practitioners in the area know that he hurts people with his outdated transcutaneous surgeries. They can guess who operated by looking at the outcome.
Please protect your eyes. A transcutaneous surgery is too risky, and this man doesn't care. The damage will be permanent. Instead of the subtle refresh we discussed, I look altered, unnatural, and older.
He sold me when he said that he is so subtle his patients complain they don't look different. That was the kind of bleph I wanted. But I no longer believe any patients don't feel they look different. I believe they went through what I did, upset that they look worse. And he responds by trying to tell you that you are improved, despite your retraction, which is just a coincidence and isn't his fault. He may even tell you what he told me, which is that I only look worse bc now that the overgrown hedges of my eyelids are corrected, one can more clearly see the falling down shutters and peeling paint of my face.
This man is a terrific salesman. His arrogance can read as high competence. But he utilizes a risky and outdated approach to the lower lids and he won't be able to help you after he ruins them.

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Oculoplastic Surgeon, Board Certified in Ophthalmology
3730 Kirby Drive, Houston, Texas
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