Will advise you on what is best for you and will not push you into surgery if it is not required

Dr Kenneth Steinsapir has given me hope and a solution when all other doctors have dismissed me or misdiagnosed me - believe me, I have consulted with all the well known top eye surgeons in the UAE, UK and USA.

In late March 2023 my life changed drastically following a terrible outcome of an elective upper blepharoplasty surgery in Dubai with the goal to maintain a youthful appearance.

We all have different motivations for turning to cosmetic surgery, I’ll share mine, in case it resonates with anyone. As a beautiful, single gal with a pleasing personality in my late 30s I’ve been perplexed at the stars not aligning to bring in love and companionship to my life. For years prior I had been optimising (in a fun way) all areas of my life (mindset and meditation, hobbies, education, wardrobe revamp, heath and fitness, relationship and dating courses and coaches - the works!) and still I was unsuccessful in attracting a suitable guy. Although I was enjoying my life and keeping a light heartedness about everything, the disappointment in the back of my head was slowly chipping away at my self confidence. I started to ask myself what am I still not addressing? This is when I started visiting a cosmetic clinic to get some advice on my facial appearance. I met a wonderful, balanced doctor at that clinic and had a number of filler/Botox services over the course of a year that filled me with confidence and put my trust in the clinic. Still single, I continued to go to the clinic but there had been a change in doctors. The new doctor started to advise me that my eyes were my “problem” (in fact my eyes are a very unique greeny, browny, yellowish colour and were my best feature) and advised to get upper and lower blepharoplasty. Given my prior happy results from the clinic and putting my trust in the clinic and in turn the new doctor I went ahead with the surgery. The surgery appeared to go well, however, looking back it was a dreadful decision. After one and a half years my eyelids were appearing somewhat floppy and uneven and I went back to the doctor for a consultation only to find another doctor (the 3rd doctor) at the same clinic. Without even mentioning my concerns on my eyes, this 3rd doctor told me I needed a revision upper blepharoplasty. Again, putting my trust in the same clinic, but with a new surgeon who sounded very confident and informed me how easy the surgery would be, I scheduled it in late March 2023.

When I woke up from the surgery I knew something was wrong but could not figure out what. I had huge head swelling (not normal), very bad bruising around my eyes, random stitches across my eyelids (not a single thread stitch), my eyes didn’t seem to be closing tightly and both my eyelids had a very high and uneven eyelid crease and looked very hollow. Furthermore I had an uneven very pronounced scar on both eyes from the inner corner of my eyes to the tip of my outer eyebrow. My eyes appeared large and bulging. The doctor gaslit me into this being a normal outcome and that I’m not being patient enough to allow for healing. I went through blepharoplasty before so I understood it should be 7-10 days for initial healing (bruising to go away, stitches to come out etc), however I’m no expert so I did my best to trust the process. Two months later and I was still not through with the initial healing (dry eye symptoms, eye swelling, random stitches still in my eyelids causing discomfort, severe scaring and a drastic change for the worse in my appearance). This is when I decided to search for answers. I researched like crazy and found the top eye surgeons and ophthalmologists in the UAE and had a 30min - 1hr in-person consultations with each. They all gave conflicting prognoses confusing me. Then I reached out to the best of the best eye surgeons in the UK and had an online video consultation, again the prognosis seemed to be inconsistent with no concrete healing plan. After that, I reached out to highly rated eye surgeons in the USA and had several online video consultations (approx 30 mins) that were extremely expensive and gave me no real answers. Up until this point, all doctors shared a sympathetic “you’ll have to learn to live with this” prognosis rather than solutions for betterment of the situation.

My last resort was Dr Kenneth Steinsapir. After I reached out on email to his clinic I was met with the clinic’s manager Faith. In such a lovely way she took an interest in me and demonstrated something unique to all my other dealings with surgeons’ clinics - Faith showed me immense KINDNESS. Instead of directly scheduling a consultation (as what happened with every other clinic/surgeon) she arranged a phone call to talk with her and we spoke for a whole hour before I even committed to a consultation! From that first conversation with Faith, I felt hope in my heart for a solution.

From Dr Kenneth Steinsapir’s experience he knows that every case is different and requires a full, in-person assessment so I booked the consultation and the 16-hour flight to go and see him. I had a detailed, 4-hour consultation with him where he assessed me and clearly outlined what I was dealing with - layers of problems (which no other surgeon indicated) that were beyond my comprehension, but when educated, I started to clearly see. Dr Kenneth Steinsapir has become extremely niche in fixing botched eye surgeries and so he was able to outline a multi-step treatment plan which I am so hopeful and so, so grateful for.

Given that I made such a rash decision to go for the revision blepharoplasty that changed my life for the worst, I decided to wait further before diving into correction surgery with Dr Steinsapir. I guess I made that decision out of fear of jumping into the wrong thing again (and also a bit of self-punishment), also because I live on the completely other side of the world and it’s not the most straightforward thing to take a 16-hour flight for cosmetic surgery. However I’m now taking steps forward and I again met with Dr Steinsapir last month for a reassessment. I’m now confident this is the path I need to take. I’m looking to schedule my surgery when I can manage it with my work and general life schedule. I will share further updates on this platform
in due course, hoping that my story and testimony will at least help anyone else to make a balanced, well-informed decision for eye surgery. I would even recommend consultation with Dr Steinsapir’s to extend beyond eye-related surgery as he has shared his expertise and recommendations for filler services to me which is invaluable, honest advice.

I advise anyone who is considering eye surgery (first time or revision) to go to Dr Kenneth Steinsapir, at the very least for a consultation. It WILL save you mentally, emotionally and financially. Do you know there are several methodologies for conducting a blepharoplasty? I didn’t. A surgeon applying the wrong method could be long-term devastating for you. Furthermore, very often patients are advised by mostly well-meaning yet under-educated/general cosmetic surgeons to undergo a blepharoplasty when that is not the treatment plan they need (which was my case). Dr Steinsapir will advise you on what is best for you and will not push you into surgery if it is not required. I actually believe he would deter patients from surgery where possible. Dr Steinsapir is extremely attentive, educated and intelligent whilst also being honest, kind and full of compassion. Not a day goes by when I don’t thank the lord that both he and Faith are there for me and people like me.