Posts Tagged 'oculoplastic surgery'

Lower eyelid blepharoplasty: FAQs answered

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Lower eyelid blepharoplasty: FAQs answered

Lower eyelid blepharoplasty is commonly performed along with an upper eyelid blepharoplasty (eyelid lift). Lower eyelid blepharoplasty helps to remove baggy lower eyelids and take away the shadows that make your eyes look tired. Here are the most common questions, with answers, that we get from patients about the procedure.

Question: How is lower eyelid blepharoplasty performed?

Lower eyelid blepharoplasty is performed by making an incision through the inside of the lower eyelid (transconjunctival approach). Through this incision, the fat pads in ...

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Some thoughts from the Third World (a term that needs to go away)

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Some thoughts from the Third World (a term that needs to go away)

I’m on my way back from another week in Haiti. I had many profound, disturbing, humbling and enlightening experiences. I thought I’d share a few here and try and put in words what you would experience if you made a similar trip.

First, I wanted to address the title of this post. The “Third World” is actually an outdated and useless term, which came about after World War II to describe countries that neither belonged to NATO or the communist bloc. ...

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Humanitarian trip to Haiti 2012

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I was invited to accompany Dr. Branson Call, my recently retired partner, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in late spring of this year. He has been traveling there on humanitarian missions for about 10 years making several visits per year. In January of 2010, Dr. Call was in the operating room, getting ready to start surgery on a Haitian man when he says the floor started rolling and the lights went out. All in the room hit the floor and for the ...

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Tanning myths: Why you are fooling yourself into aged skin and skin cancer

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This past week I took a basal cell skin cancer off the eyelid of a man younger than I, and I’m in my mid-thirties. Remember when skin cancer was something your grandma and grandpa dealt with? Well those days are past and we are ushering in a generation of young people who will be dealing with skin excisions, biopsies, deforming surgeries and possibly early death due to their love of the sun, tan skin, and refusal ...

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Drooping brows: You have lots of options - Which one is right for you?

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Often when people come to our office complaining that their eyelids are sagging, they actually have a drooping forehead and brows. This downward sliding skin causes the upper eyelid to look especially redundant and fold over the eye. Many times, especially in men, the brow hairs are down at the level of the eyelashes and the brows block out their entire upper visual field. Simply raising the forehead without even touching the eyelids corrects most of the problem and dramatically ...

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