# blepharoplasty.pro > Reference on eyelid surgery: the Top 500 US eyelid surgeons and the best eyelid surgeons in every state, scored from Medicare billing, PubMed and practice sites; the procedures, cost and insurance; and the PubMed eyelid research record. Medicare and PubMed read 2026-09-30. Published by Medical Advertising Agency; featured surgeons are clients and are labeled. ## Entity map - [Knowledge map](https://blepharoplasty.pro/knowledge-map): the procedures, conditions, eyelid anatomy, specialties, boards, societies and places on the site, each with its page here and the public records that identify it - [XML sitemap](https://blepharoplasty.pro/sitemap-index.xml) - [Site map](https://blepharoplasty.pro/site-map): every page, by section ## Surgeons - [Top 500](https://blepharoplasty.pro/top-500): eyelid surgeons ranked by score - [Methodology](https://blepharoplasty.pro/top-500/methodology) - [Find a surgeon](https://blepharoplasty.pro/surgeons): by state and city - [Eyelid surgeon profiles](https://blepharoplasty.pro/surgeon): every surgeon profile, by state - [California](https://blepharoplasty.pro/california): the best eyelid surgeons in California - [Florida](https://blepharoplasty.pro/florida): the best eyelid surgeons in Florida - [Texas](https://blepharoplasty.pro/texas): the best eyelid surgeons in Texas - [New York](https://blepharoplasty.pro/new-york): the best eyelid surgeons in New York - [New Jersey](https://blepharoplasty.pro/new-jersey): the best eyelid surgeons in New Jersey - [Georgia](https://blepharoplasty.pro/georgia): the best eyelid surgeons in Georgia - [Pennsylvania](https://blepharoplasty.pro/pennsylvania): the best eyelid surgeons in Pennsylvania - [Illinois](https://blepharoplasty.pro/illinois): the best eyelid surgeons in Illinois - [Michigan](https://blepharoplasty.pro/michigan): the best eyelid surgeons in Michigan - [Ohio](https://blepharoplasty.pro/ohio): the best eyelid surgeons in Ohio - [Virginia](https://blepharoplasty.pro/virginia): the best eyelid surgeons in Virginia - [North Carolina](https://blepharoplasty.pro/north-carolina): the best eyelid surgeons in North Carolina - [Arizona](https://blepharoplasty.pro/arizona): the best eyelid surgeons in Arizona - [Tennessee](https://blepharoplasty.pro/tennessee): the best eyelid surgeons in Tennessee - [Washington](https://blepharoplasty.pro/washington): the best eyelid surgeons in Washington - [Massachusetts](https://blepharoplasty.pro/massachusetts): the best eyelid surgeons in Massachusetts - [Maryland](https://blepharoplasty.pro/maryland): the best eyelid surgeons in Maryland - [Colorado](https://blepharoplasty.pro/colorado): the best eyelid surgeons in Colorado - [Minnesota](https://blepharoplasty.pro/minnesota): the best eyelid surgeons in Minnesota - [Louisiana](https://blepharoplasty.pro/louisiana): the best eyelid surgeons in Louisiana - [South Carolina](https://blepharoplasty.pro/south-carolina): the best eyelid surgeons in South Carolina - [Indiana](https://blepharoplasty.pro/indiana): the best eyelid surgeons in Indiana - [Missouri](https://blepharoplasty.pro/missouri): the best eyelid surgeons in Missouri - [Wisconsin](https://blepharoplasty.pro/wisconsin): the best eyelid surgeons in Wisconsin - [Connecticut](https://blepharoplasty.pro/connecticut): the best eyelid surgeons in Connecticut - [Nevada](https://blepharoplasty.pro/nevada): the best eyelid surgeons in Nevada - [Oklahoma](https://blepharoplasty.pro/oklahoma): the best eyelid surgeons in Oklahoma - [Utah](https://blepharoplasty.pro/utah): the best eyelid surgeons in Utah - [Alabama](https://blepharoplasty.pro/alabama): the best eyelid surgeons in Alabama - [Kentucky](https://blepharoplasty.pro/kentucky): the best eyelid surgeons in Kentucky - [Kansas](https://blepharoplasty.pro/kansas): the best eyelid surgeons in Kansas - [Oregon](https://blepharoplasty.pro/oregon): the best eyelid surgeons in Oregon - [Mississippi](https://blepharoplasty.pro/mississippi): the best eyelid surgeons in Mississippi - [Idaho](https://blepharoplasty.pro/idaho): the best eyelid surgeons in Idaho - [Arkansas](https://blepharoplasty.pro/arkansas): the best eyelid surgeons in Arkansas - [Iowa](https://blepharoplasty.pro/iowa): the best eyelid surgeons in Iowa - [District of Columbia](https://blepharoplasty.pro/district-of-columbia): the best eyelid surgeons in District of Columbia - [Nebraska](https://blepharoplasty.pro/nebraska): the best eyelid surgeons in Nebraska - 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[Cosmetic surgeons](https://blepharoplasty.pro/specialty/cosmetic-surgeons): Surgeons from several base specialties who practice cosmetic surgery; many hold American Board of Cosmetic Surgery certification, which is not an American Board of Medical Specialties member board. - [Other specialists](https://blepharoplasty.pro/specialty/other-specialists): Ophthalmologists, otolaryngologists, general surgeons and oral and maxillofacial surgeons whose practice site shows cosmetic eyelid work. - [Insurance-based eyelid surgeons](https://blepharoplasty.pro/specialty/insurance-based): Surgeons, most of them ophthalmologists, who bill Medicare for eyelid operations and show no cosmetic eyelid work: no eyelid page, before-and-after gallery or cosmetic society listing. - [What oculoplastic surgeons do](https://blepharoplasty.pro/oculoplastic-surgeons) - [Boards and societies](https://blepharoplasty.pro/associations) ## Procedures - [Procedures](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures) - Upper eyelid: Upper eyelid surgery removes loose skin, and sometimes a strip of muscle and fat, from the upper lids. It treats hooded, heavy lids and, when the skin blocks the upper field of vision, it can be a covered medical operation. - [Upper blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/upper-blepharoplasty): Upper blepharoplasty (upper eyelid surgery, eyelid lift) removes excess skin from the upper eyelids, with or without a strip of orbicularis muscle and some fat. It is for adults with redundant upper lid skin, which can restrict the upper field of vision and cause lid heaviness, headache and tearing. - [Hooded eyelids](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/hooded-eyelids): "Hooded eyelids" is the common term for upper-lid skin that folds down over the lash line. The cause is excess lid skin (dermatochalasis), a low eyebrow (brow ptosis), a change in lid or brow fat and muscle volume, or a mix of these. The cause decides whether treatment removes skin, lifts the brow, or both. Upper blepharoplasty, the operation that removes excess lid skin, is one of the most common cosmetic operations in the United States. - [Functional blepharoplasty and visual fields](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/functional-blepharoplasty-and-visual-fields): Functional blepharoplasty and ptosis repair are eyelid operations paid for by insurance when redundant skin or a low eyelid margin measurably blocks the upper visual field, as distinct from surgery performed only to change appearance. Medicare contractors and most US commercial insurers require a visual field test with the eyelid untaped and then taped or elevated, a measured eyelid position (MRD1), and photographs before they will pay for the surgery (CMS LCD L34028). - [Non-surgical eyelid tightening](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/non-surgical-eyelid-tightening): Non-surgical eyelid tightening uses energy devices, most often radiofrequency, microneedling radiofrequency, or plasma (fibroblast) devices, to shrink lax eyelid skin without an incision. It is offered to patients with mild to moderate dermatochalasis who want improvement without surgical blepharoplasty, though surgery remains the first choice for permanent, more pronounced results. - [Hollow upper eyelid and fat grafting](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/hollow-upper-eyelid-and-fat-grafting): A hollow, or sunken, upper eyelid is loss of soft tissue volume between the eyelid crease and the orbital rim, producing a deep superior sulcus instead of a smooth, full lid. It follows aging volume loss, bony orbital resorption, or excisional blepharoplasty that removed too much fat, muscle or skin. Correction restores volume with autologous fat grafting, orbital fat repositioning, or hyaluronic acid and other injectable filler. - [Male blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/male-blepharoplasty): Male blepharoplasty removes or repositions excess upper or lower eyelid tissue in men, using the same core techniques as blepharoplasty in women but aimed at preserving a flat, low-set brow and full eyelid rather than an arched, elevated one. It is for men with dermatochalasis, fat prolapse or brow ptosis who want correction without a feminized result. - [Blepharoplasty by age](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/blepharoplasty-by-age): Eyelid surgery is done from the 30s into the 80s. What the surgery treats, the technique chosen and the risks all change by decade, from fat bulging without extra skin in healthy adults in their 30s to severe droop with weak lifting muscle in patients in their 80s. Blepharoplasty is projected to rank among the three most requested cosmetic procedures in the United States by 2030 as the patient population ages. - [Eyelid and periorbital skin resurfacing](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/eyelid-skin-resurfacing): Periorbital skin resurfacing treats wrinkles, crepey texture, and photodamage around the eyes with ablative CO2 laser, erbium:YAG laser, or a trichloroacetic acid (TCA) or phenol chemical peel, applied to skin that blepharoplasty's excision of skin and fat does not smooth. It is for patients whose main complaint is skin quality rather than excess lid skin, and it is used both as an alternative to surgery and as an add-on performed at the same time as blepharoplasty. - Lower eyelid and eye bags: Lower eyelid surgery removes or moves the fat that makes bags under the eyes and tightens loose lower lid skin, through an incision inside the lid or below the lashes. - [Lower blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/lower-blepharoplasty): Lower blepharoplasty (lower eyelid surgery, eye bag surgery) treats bags under the eyes by removing or repositioning the orbital fat that bulges below the eye, and by removing excess skin when present. It is done mainly for appearance, for adults who see bags or circles under the eyes, a tired look or a flattened face. - [Eye bags and lower eyelid bags](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/eye-bags-and-lower-eyelid-bags): "Eye bags" is the patient term for a bulge, groove or swelling of the lower eyelid, and more than one condition hides under it: prolapsed orbital fat, fluid or a festoon, and a hollow tear trough next to the bulge, each needing a different treatment. Lower blepharoplasty, the operation that treats the fat and skin component, is done mainly for appearance, for adults who see bags, circles or a tired look under the eyes. - [Transconjunctival blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/transconjunctival-blepharoplasty): Transconjunctival blepharoplasty removes or repositions lower eyelid fat through an incision on the inside of the lid, leaving no visible skin scar. It suits patients whose main problem is bulging fat rather than excess skin, since the incision itself removes no skin. - [Fat repositioning in lower blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/fat-repositioning-lower-blepharoplasty): Fat repositioning moves lower eyelid fat over the orbital rim instead of removing it, to fill the tear trough and blend the lid-cheek junction. Loeb first described sliding the fat pad over the rim and grafting fat to level lid depressions in 1981. - [Tear trough and lid-cheek junction surgery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/tear-trough-and-lid-cheek-junction): Tear trough surgery smooths the groove between the lower eyelid and the cheek by releasing the ligament that tethers it and filling it with the patient's own fat, either moved on its blood supply from the eye bag or grafted. It is used mainly for moderate to severe grooves; filler suits mild grooves with good skin, little lid laxity and little fat bulging. - [Festoons and malar bags](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/festoons-and-malar-bags): A festoon is a redundant fold of skin, orbicularis oculi muscle and trapped fluid that hangs from the lower eyelid onto the cheek. Malar mounds and malar edema are related, less mobile swelling over the cheekbone, and recent reviews group all three under the term malar bags. The condition is seen in up to 1 in 10 blepharoplasty candidates, persists after standard lower blepharoplasty, and is more common than surgeons often recognize. - [Tear trough filler versus lower blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/under-eye-filler-vs-surgery): Tear trough filler injects hyaluronic acid (HA) gel to fill the groove between the lower lid and cheek; it is a same-day, non-surgical option for volume loss without significant skin excess. Lower blepharoplasty with fat repositioning moves or grafts fat over the orbital rim surgically, giving a longer-lasting correction at the cost of surgical downtime and risk. - Droopy eyelids and ptosis: A droopy eyelid is either extra skin that hangs over the lid or a lid that sits too low because its lifting muscle has stretched. Ptosis repair tightens that muscle; eye drops lift a mildly low lid for hours. - [Droopy eyelids (ptosis and dermatochalasis)](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/droopy-eyelids): A droopy eyelid is either excess skin hanging over the lid margin (dermatochalasis) or the lid margin itself sitting too low (ptosis), and the two causes need different treatment. Four measurements (palpebral fissure height, marginal reflex distance, eyelid crease, levator function) sort a droopy eyelid into pseudo-ptosis, congenital ptosis, or one of the acquired categories: mechanical, myogenic, neuromuscular, neurogenic, or cerebral. - [Ptosis surgery (blepharoptosis repair)](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/blepharoptosis-repair): Ptosis surgery (blepharoptosis repair) raises an upper eyelid whose margin sits too low, either by reattaching and advancing the levator tendon through a skin incision or by shortening Müller's muscle from inside the lid. Acquired ptosis is often missed because the forehead muscle lifts the lids; more than half of patients seen for facial rejuvenation had it. - [Upper blepharoplasty with ptosis repair](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/blepharoplasty-with-ptosis-repair): Upper blepharoplasty removes excess eyelid skin while ptosis repair raises a lid margin that sits too low; the two are done in one operation when a patient has both dermatochalasis and ptosis in the same eyelid. Ptosis is often missed on a routine blepharoplasty exam, since the forehead muscle can mask it, which is why surgeons are advised to check for it before every upper-lid case. - [Upneeq eye drops and nonsurgical ptosis treatment](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/upneeq-and-nonsurgical-ptosis-treatment): Oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution 0.1%, sold as Upneeq, is an eyedrop that raises a drooping upper eyelid for hours at a time by contracting Müller's muscle, and is the only drug the FDA has approved for acquired blepharoptosis in adults (FDA label, DailyMed). Across randomized trials the lift is real but modest, roughly 1 mm of eyelid margin, so it suits mild to moderate droop rather than severe ptosis. - [Congenital ptosis](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/congenital-ptosis): Congenital ptosis is a drooping upper eyelid present from birth, most often from a levator muscle that formed with fewer muscle fibers and more fibrous and fatty tissue than normal. It occurs alone or as part of a genetic syndrome, and a pupil blocked by the lid in infancy can cause permanent deprivation amblyopia if surgery is delayed. - Double eyelid: Double eyelid surgery makes an upper lid crease with an incision or with buried sutures. Epicanthoplasty opens the inner corner fold. - [Double eyelid surgery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/double-eyelid-surgery): Double eyelid surgery (Asian blepharoplasty) creates a supratarsal fold in an upper eyelid that has none, using a buried-suture technique, a partial incision, or a full incision. It is for Asian adults seeking a defined upper lid crease; surgery to form the fold is reported as the most common upper-eyelid procedure among Asians, with some patients undergoing it 2 to 3 times in a lifetime. - [Epicanthoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/epicanthoplasty): Epicanthoplasty removes or repositions the epicanthal fold, a skin fold over the inner corner of the eye formed by a connection between the upper and lower preseptal orbicularis oculi muscle. It is for patients seeking a longer horizontal eye opening and is usually performed together with double eyelid surgery in the same operation. - [Double eyelid revision surgery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/double-eyelid-revision): Double eyelid revision surgery corrects a crease that sits too high, a lid with more than one crease, a crease that has faded or disappeared, or an upper lid that looks hollow after a prior double eyelid operation. About 1 in 5 revisions in one surgeon's series was a revision of an already-failed revision, most often for ptosis, asymmetric creases, supratarsal depression, or a high or short crease. - [Brow lift](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/brow-lift): A low brow pushes skin down onto the upper lid. A brow lift raises it through small scalp incisions, the temple, the hairline, the lid crease or an incision above the brow, often with upper blepharoplasty. - [Endoscopic brow lift](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/endoscopic-brow-lift): An endoscopic brow lift raises low eyebrows through a few short scalp incisions and a camera, without the ear-to-ear coronal incision, and weakens the frown muscles between the brows. It is used for brow droop and frown lines, and it was the most frequent brow lift technique in American Society of Plastic Surgeons member surveys in 2000 and 2020. - [Temporal and lateral brow lift](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/temporal-and-lateral-brow-lift): A temporal (lateral) brow lift raises the tail of the eyebrow and the hooded skin at the outer corner of the eye through a short incision in the temple, usually behind the hairline. It is for people whose outer brow has dropped, which usually happens before the inner brow drops, and it is often done together with a blepharoplasty or a facelift. - [Browpexy and direct brow lift](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/browpexy-and-direct-brow-lift): A browpexy holds up the outer eyebrow with stitches placed through the upper eyelid incision during a blepharoplasty, so the brow does not drop below the bony rim. A direct brow lift removes a strip of skin just above the eyebrow to raise it, and it is used for any degree of brow droop, most often in men, older women and people with facial nerve weakness. - [Blepharoplasty with facelift and brow lift](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/blepharoplasty-with-facelift-and-brow-lift): Blepharoplasty is often done together with a brow lift, a facelift, or both, because the brow, the eyelids and the lower face age together and share surgical planes. In the largest eyelid-specific review, adding a brow lift to blepharoplasty did not raise the major complication rate. - Eye shape and lid position: The outer corner of the eye, the canthus, sets the shape of the eye and holds the lower lid against the eye. Canthal surgery tightens or reshapes it and corrects lids that turn out, turn in or pull down. - [Canthoplasty and canthopexy](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/canthoplasty-and-canthopexy): Canthopexy and canthoplasty anchor the outer corner of the eyelids (the lateral canthus) to the orbital rim so the lower lid stays against the eye and keeps its shape. Surgeons add them to lower eyelid and midface operations that can pull the lid down or turn it out, and to blepharoplasty when the lower lid is lax. - [Fox eye and canthal tilt surgery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/fox-eye-and-canthal-tilt): Canthal tilt is the angle of the line connecting the inner and outer corners of the eye. Raising the outer corner produces the upswept look patients call "fox eye," "cat eye," or "almond eye," achieved with lateral canthoplasty, lateral canthopexy, or thread lifts. An upward lateral canthal tilt is endorsed almost unanimously as more feminine-appearing in a large survey, which is why the tilt is also a target in facial feminization surgery. - [Lower eyelid retraction, ectropion and entropion](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/lower-eyelid-retraction-and-ectropion): Lower eyelid retraction is a lid margin that sits too low, exposing sclera below the cornea; ectropion is a lid margin that turns outward; entropion is a lid margin that turns inward against the eye. In adults, all three are usually caused by age-related loosening of the tarsal plate and canthal tendons, or by scarring after eyelid surgery or trauma, and are treated with lid-tightening procedures such as the lateral tarsal strip, sometimes combined with a posterior spacer graft. - [Eyelid surgery in thyroid eye disease](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/thyroid-eye-disease-eyelid-surgery): Thyroid eye disease is an autoimmune orbital disease, usually tied to Graves' hyperthyroidism, that swells the eyelids, retracts them, and pushes the eyes forward. Surgery (orbital decompression, eyelid retraction repair, and blepharoplasty) treats the residual, inactive-phase changes once the drug for active inflammation, teprotumumab, has run its course or was never an option. - Safety, recovery and revision: The papers in this section measure recovery time, how often bleeding, dry eye and lid malposition follow eyelid surgery, how anesthesia choices change comfort and safety, and how surgeons repair a result that went wrong. - [Blepharoplasty complications](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/blepharoplasty-complications): Blepharoplasty complications range from temporary dry eye to permanent vision loss, and most are minor and resolve on their own. Orbital hemorrhage (bleeding behind the eye) occurs in about 1 in 2,000 cosmetic eyelid surgeries, and permanent visual loss in about 1 in 22,000. - [Blepharoplasty scars](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/blepharoplasty-scars): Blepharoplasty scars sit in the upper eyelid crease, below the lower lashes, or inside the lid itself (no visible scar). In most patients they heal to a thin, pale line, because incision placement and the patient's own skin biology matter more than the technique and tools used. Hypertrophic (raised, red) scarring after cosmetic eyelid surgery is uncommon, about 1%, and keloid scarring is rare, with none reported in a systematic review. - [Dry eye and blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/dry-eye-and-blepharoplasty): Dry eye is irritation, burning or blurred vision from an unstable tear film. Blepharoplasty and ptosis repair change eyelid closure and blink mechanics enough to trigger or worsen it in some patients, most often temporarily. It matters most for patients with a history of dry eye, prior LASIK or PRK, or an eyelid-tightening procedure such as Müller muscle-conjunctival resection (MMCR), which carries a higher measured risk than skin-only upper blepharoplasty. - [Eyelid surgery anesthesia](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/eyelid-surgery-anesthesia): Eyelid surgery is done under local anesthesia alone, local anesthesia with oral or intravenous sedation, or general anesthesia, depending on the procedure, the patient and the setting. Most upper and lower blepharoplasty and ptosis repair can be done with local anesthesia in an office, but combined procedures, anxious patients or children more often need sedation or general anesthesia in an accredited facility. - [Revision blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/procedures/revision-blepharoplasty): Revision blepharoplasty corrects a problem that persists or appears after an earlier eyelid operation, most often lower lid retraction, upper lid hollowing, crease asymmetry, or a misplaced crease. Correction is difficult and unpredictable, so surgery for a revision patient differs from a first-time blepharoplasty in both planning and materials. - [Eyelid anatomy](https://blepharoplasty.pro/anatomy): labelled medical illustrations of the eyelid and of upper and lower blepharoplasty ## Guides - [Eyelid surgery cost](https://blepharoplasty.pro/cost) - [Insurance and Medicare](https://blepharoplasty.pro/insurance) - [Recovery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/recovery) - [Before and after galleries](https://blepharoplasty.pro/before-and-after) ## Reference - [History of eyelid surgery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/history) - [Celebrities who had eyelid surgery, on the record](https://blepharoplasty.pro/famous) ## Journal - [Journal](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal): PubMed eyelid research by section and topic, newest papers first - [Eyelid surgery research](https://blepharoplasty.pro/research): where the research came from, what changed since 2020 and who does the work - [Upper blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/upper-blepharoplasty): Upper blepharoplasty removes excess upper eyelid skin, and sometimes muscle and fat, through a crease incision. - [Ptosis repair](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/ptosis-repair): Ptosis repair raises a drooping upper eyelid by shortening or reattaching the levator muscle that lifts it. - [Lower blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/lower-blepharoplasty): Lower blepharoplasty treats lower eyelid bags by removing or moving fat through the skin or inside the lid. - [Ectropion](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/ectropion): Ectropion is a lower lid that turns outward, away from the eye, repaired by tightening the lid horizontally. - [Entropion](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/entropion): Entropion is a lid that turns inward, so the lashes rub the eye, repaired by rotating the lid margin back out. - [Transconjunctival blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/transconjunctival): Transconjunctival blepharoplasty reaches the lower eyelid fat through an incision inside the lid, with no outer scar. - [Brow lift](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/brow-lift): A brow lift raises a low brow through scalp, temple or hairline incisions, often combined with upper blepharoplasty. - [Complications](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/complications): Complication papers report bleeding, infection, vision loss, asymmetry and other adverse events after eyelid surgery. - [Dry eye](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/dry-eye): Dry eye papers measure tear film and ocular surface changes after eyelid surgery and how to prevent or treat them. - [Double eyelid surgery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/double-eyelid): Double eyelid surgery creates an upper lid crease with an incision or buried sutures, most often requested by East Asian patients. - [Lid retraction](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/lid-retraction): Lid retraction is an upper or lower lid pulled too high or too low, exposing white above or below the iris. - [Congenital ptosis](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/congenital-ptosis): Congenital ptosis is present from birth, from a levator muscle that did not form normally, and is repaired in childhood if it blocks vision. - [Tear trough](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/tear-trough): Tear trough papers treat the groove between the lower lid and the cheek with fat, fillers or ligament release. - [Lagophthalmos](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/lagophthalmos): Lagophthalmos is a lid that will not close fully, exposing the eye to drying and injury during sleep or blinking. - [Muller muscle resection](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/muller-resection): Muller muscle resection raises a mildly drooping lid by shortening the small muscle behind the levator. - [Frontalis sling](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/frontalis-sling): A frontalis sling connects the eyelid to the forehead muscle so the brow lifts the lid, used when the levator does not work. - [Orbital fat](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/orbital-fat): Orbital fat papers remove, preserve or graft the fat pads of the upper eyelid for a hollow or heavy lid. - [Laser and resurfacing](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/laser-resurfacing): These papers combine blepharoplasty with laser resurfacing, chemical peels or radiofrequency on the eyelid skin. - [Canthoplasty and canthopexy](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/canthoplasty-canthopexy): Canthoplasty and canthopexy tighten or reset the outer corner of the eye to support a loose lower lid. - [Epicanthoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/epicanthoplasty): Epicanthoplasty opens the inner corner fold of the upper eyelid, often done with double eyelid surgery. - [Revision](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/revision): Revision papers cover repeat and corrective surgery after an eyelid operation that healed poorly or went too far. - [Fillers](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/fillers): Filler papers treat eyelid and periorbital hollowing with hyaluronic acid and other injectable fillers. - [Anesthesia](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/anesthesia): Anesthesia papers compare local, sedation and general anesthesia for eyelid surgery on comfort, safety and cost. - [Thyroid eye disease](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/thyroid-eye-disease): Thyroid eye disease swells the muscles and fat behind the eye, pushing the eye forward and pulling the lids out of position. - [Recovery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/recovery): Recovery papers measure bruising, swelling, time off work and when patients return to normal activity after eyelid surgery. - [Fat repositioning](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/fat-repositioning): Fat repositioning moves lower eyelid fat over the orbital rim instead of removing it, to smooth the lid-cheek junction. - [Browpexy](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/browpexy): Browpexy fixes the brow in a raised position through the upper eyelid crease incision, without a separate scalp incision. - [Festoons](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/festoons): Festoon papers treat the folds of loose skin and muscle that sag over the cheek below the lower lid. - [History of eyelid surgery](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/history): History papers trace eyelid surgery from its 19th-century origins through today's techniques. - [Functional blepharoplasty and visual field](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/visual-field): Visual field papers measure how much upper eyelid skin or ptosis blocks vision, the test Medicare and insurers use to cover the operation. - [Male blepharoplasty](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/men): Male blepharoplasty papers cover eyelid anatomy, incision placement and outcomes specific to men. - [Nonsurgical ptosis treatment](https://blepharoplasty.pro/journal/topic/oxymetazoline): Oxymetazoline and similar eye drops raise a mildly drooping lid for hours by stimulating the Muller muscle without surgery. ## About - [About](https://blepharoplasty.pro/about) - [Contact](https://blepharoplasty.pro/contact)