Question: What’s my best option to fix my droopy outer eyelid?
Answer: An upper blepharoplasty procedure with the incision extended outward and more laterally can remove the extra pleat of skin in the outer eyelid. The incision itself is blended into a crows feet wrinkle. This can be performed under local or general anesthesia.
Question: Recommended correction for eye and brow asymmetry?
Answer: More information is needed such as a full set of facial photographs is to make a determination About how best to proceed. A Brow lift will accomplish is raising low set eyebrows and adjusting symmetry. When the eyelids themselves are asymmetric, then an upper blepharoplasty can be performed either one or both sides.
Question: Is it safe to have eyelid surgery with braces?
Answer: Yes, it is very safe to have eyelid surgery with braces on. There is no reason the braces will interfere with anesthesia or the surgery itself.
Question: Are you awake during blepharoplasty surgery?
Answer: Upper blepharoplasty surgery can be performed under local anesthesia with the patient wide-awake, or under general anesthesia with the patient completely asleep. It all depends on the what the patient desires.In our practice, all lower eyelid surgery is performed under general anesthesia.
Question: Desiring a slimmer face and tightened jowls?
Answer: You care much too young for a facelift procedure. The facelift procedure is not performed to change the shape of the face.A Facelift procedure is performed just to rejuvenate the face which accomplishes tightening loose and inelastic skin in the face and neck, tightening loose facial and neck muscles, and remove fatty deposits in the neck which also includes a platysma-plasty.
Question: Will a rhinoplasty make my profile look worse due to a flat forehead?
Answer: No, a properly performed rhinoplasty will not throw off your facial balance and proportions. Digital computer imaging of your face can accomplish showing you what the new chin and rhinoplasty would look like, and would be very helpful in the communication process. Best to leave your forehead alone. Rhinoplasty is the most difficult operation to perform in the entire field of cosmetic surgery, so choose your surgeon wisely based on extensive experience producing natural results.
Question: How to achieve a slight dorsal augmentation if I don’t want to have implants or rib?
Answer: Nasal septal cartilage is always the best grafting material to use for augmenting the nasal bridge. This can be harvested from inside the nose, and placed cost across the bridge to augment it. Osteotomies placed in the nasal bones accomplish narrowing the bridge line. The very thick skin in the tip of the nose will prevent refinement in that area. An alar-plasty isperformed a narrow wide nostrils which involves removal of a wedge of skin at the base of the nostrils.
Question: Does it look like my chin/jaw is receding? Or are my teeth just creating that appearance?
Answer: Yes, there is a recessive chin profile present for which a chin implant can improve. Chin implants are placed through a small incision underneath the chin under local anesthesia as an outpatient procedure. They are also manufactured in a large array of differences, sizes, and shapes which is best determined at the time of the consultation and examination. For over 25 years, we have used Implantech brand of solid silicone chin implants with an excellent success rate.
Question: Where should I have cheek filler to replace loss of volume?
Answer: The photographs are inadequate in order to make a determination about how best to proceed. Fillers offer a temporary augmentation to the cheeks, while cheek implants offer a permanent augmentation when patients have a flat maxilla and a flat cheek profile. A full set of facial photographs without smiling would also be helpful to make a determination.
Question: What would you recommend for a natural looking tip refinement?
Answer: When patients have a wide and boxy nasal tip, suture techniques and conservative cartilage removal are applied to the lower lateral cartilages of the nasal dip to refine and narrow the tip itself. Thick skin in the tip of the nose prevents refinement, so it’s imperative to have realistic expectations. The thickness of the cartilages and skin is best determined at the time of an in-person consultation. Rhinoplasty is a very difficult endeavor, so choose your surgeon wisely based on extensive experience producing natural results.
Question: What’s the best method to achieve something as close to the goal as possible?
Answer: At age 26, you not need your upper or lower eyelids done. Best to leave well enough alone. There’s just not enough to do that is worthwhile to put you through the process.
Question: Upper eyelids puffy, especially when I smile and when rested, hollow and droopy. What can be done to improve them?
Answer: The photographs demonstrate a small amount of fat in the inner corners of the upper eyelid which can be removed through through a very small incision in the upper eyelid crease.