Forehead reduction and brow lift by Doctor Jeffrey Epstein, ENT and Facial Surgeon at Miami, Fla.

Hi All at real self.

I thought that I would open a diary/blog to tell you my experience with this forthcoming journey that will involve lifting my eyebrows by Dr Epstein, using a technique known as Trichophyllic forehead brow lift.
I shall be describing everything as it happens step by step till the operation date on October the 12th 2017, including follow up afterwards.
This narrative shall include some pre op and post op photos in due course.

I hope many of you who are considering having a brow lift and/or forehead hairline lowering will follow and participate with me with your comments in this journey. Hopefully this blog should help people who are considering a similar operation.

I shall start with some preliminary information in the next posting of how I chose my surgeon and a how I hope I have avoided falling into the wrong hands. Comments of all kinds are welcome. Thanks.

Hello again, I thought I would share with you how I went about choosing my surgeon. I have read some horrific stories here at Realself of how unsuspecting patients ended up with the wrong doctor. The main thing is not to go by appearances or by how impressive their CV appears to be. All of those things can never give a surgeon good manual dexterity or a sense of artistry with their aesthetic work. Looking good on paper is not the same thing as having satisfied patients. Although review are important they can be deceptive or even fake.

The first thing I did was to draw a list of surgeons who have actually done formal fellowship training in facial surgery for at least a year at a recognized institution. That would be an additional training on top of having completed a 3 yeara residency training program in either plastic surgery, ENT, Ophthalmology oculoplastic surgery, or maxilofacial surgery.

Disregard general plastic surgeons who do liposuction, breast surgery, hand surgery and others jacks of all trades if one is looking to have facial surgery. Choose someone who only does facial surgery and nothing else to ensure the most experienced surgeon for you. This is crucial if one is looking for someone to do revision surgery. If for example you are have a nose revision then choose an ENT surgeon who is doubly accredited in facial plastic surgery. If you are having eyelid revision surgery then I would go to an oculoplastic surgeon ideally with a facial plastic surgery felloship and so on.
Will continue...

First of all may thanks for all the PMs of support I have received from the followers of this blog. I thought I would thank you all of you here as it would be easier doing so.

I just wanted to clarify to you about how exactly Doctor Epstein will lift my eyebrows.

He is goint to do an incicion just behind the forehead hairline. The air will grow eventually and hide the scar. Then he is going to disect back the scalp and pull it forward for about 2 inches as I have a high forehead and a bit of receding hairline so it would help with making me look less bald I suppose. Then Doctor Epstein will disect off my forehead skin and weaken the frown muscles and he will pull up the skin together with the eyebrows and fix them to the new higher position.