Dr. Chandrasekhar Basu, MD

Training and board certification

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• Board certification: "Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon, American Board of Plastic Surgery."
• Currently President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons; past chairman of its Patient Safety Committee and past board member.
• Former assistant professor of plastic surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and former chief of plastic surgery at North Cypress Medical Center.
• Former board member of the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities.
• Co-author of the textbook Cosmetic Breast Surgery (Thieme, 2020).

Eyelid surgery work

• Blepharoplasty. Upper eyelid surgery removes excess skin and may improve vision; lower eyelid surgery treats puffiness and under-eye bags. The eyelid page names Dr. Basu and Dr. Taylor DeBusk, a facial plastic surgeon in the practice, as the eyelid surgeons (source).
• Double eyelid surgery. Dr. Basu removes excess skin or fat from the upper lids and uses a full incision, partial incision or no-incision approach. The no-incision method places sutures beneath the eyelid skin to form the crease (source).
• Eyelid repair. The eye surgery page lists entropion surgery, ectropion surgery, eyelid ptosis surgery, and upper and lower eyelid retraction surgery, plus oculoplastic reconstruction after skin cancer or trauma (source).
• Brow lift. Options are a classic coronal forehead lift, which can also advance a high hairline, a temporal or mini brow lift through two small incisions in the hairline, and an endoscopic brow lift (source).
• Gallery. The eyelid gallery shows five before-and-after cases (source).
• Surgery takes place in the practice's ambulatory surgery center, licensed by the Texas Department of State Health. Candidates for eye procedures must have a BMI of 40 or less.

Other procedures

The site centers on breast surgery, body contouring, mommy makeover and post-weight-loss surgery, and also offers facelift, neck lift, rhinoplasty, chin augmentation, fat micrografting, breast reconstruction and injectables.

Insurance and cost

• Price: eyelid surgery "typically begins at $7,250," including anesthesia, facility fees and follow-up visits.
• Eyelid crease refinement or ethnic eyelid techniques typically begin at $6,850.
• PatientFi financing, from $143 a month for standard eyelid surgery.
• Insurance: when eyelid surgery corrects impaired vision, insurance may help cover part of the cost.

Recovery

• Swelling, bruising and redness typically subside within 1 to 2 weeks, and most patients return to daily activities in that time (source).
• After double eyelid surgery: back to work after about 1 week; exercise resumes gradually after 2 to 4 weeks (source).