It has been about 2 years since I had surgery together with my daughter.
Daughter’s case She was 16 at the time of surgery.
She had epicanthal folds, and the inner corners of her eyes were not pointed but rounded. Her eyelids were of average thickness, and since she had large monolid eyes, we weren’t thinking about surgery...
But she tended to open her eyes using her forehead, so the distance between her eyebrows and eyes gradually got wider, and her eyelids started to droop. We started going for consultations to see whether it was ptosis and whether surgery was needed.
We went to 4 consultations, and except for this clinic, all the others recommended ptosis correction. At this clinic, the doctor watched for a bit while holding her eyebrows fixed with his hand and having her open and close her eyes, and said there was no problem with the muscles she uses to open her eyes, so she should only get double-eyelid surgery, but during the postoperative recovery period she needed to practice keeping her eyebrows still and opening her eyes only with eye strength. He said that if she kept opening her eyes with her forehead muscles while recovering, the swelling in the double-eyelid line might not go down. He said the double-eyelid line needs to repeatedly fold and unfold as it settles, but if she opens her eyes with her forehead, the line doesn’t fold, so it heals unattractively..
He said that if the habit didn’t improve after surgery, there was also a method of injecting Botox into the forehead.. and that it is actually a treatment method that is used.. He said that with forehead Botox, she can’t move the forehead muscles, so she has no choice but to train herself to open her eyes using only eyelid strength.
Anyway, all 4 places concluded that surgery was needed. Whether it was only double-eyelid surgery, or ptosis correction together with it.. They said that if she kept habitually opening her eyes by tensing the forehead and lifting the eyebrows, she would develop forehead wrinkles early, and as the eyelids gradually stretched, the distance between the eyebrows and eyes would get wider.
Because she was a child, I wanted to touch as little as possible, so we decided to do only double-eyelid surgery (incisional) and epicanthoplasty, without ptosis correction. They said buried-suture double eyelids often come undone..
When my daughter said she wanted a semi-out line, the director said it was possible. When I saw it after surgery, it wasn’t semi-out but in-out. The epicanthoplasty was very natural, just slightly opened. I expected the inner corners to become pointed like almonds, but they were still round. Her gentle daughter-like image stayed the same haha There were no scars and the lacrimal caruncle wasn’t too visible, so I thought that was fortunate. Those were the two things I had worried about when deciding on epicanthoplasty..
One week after surgery, she had much more swelling left than I did, even though we had surgery together, but when she opened her eyes wide with strength, the line looked pretty. I thought it would be fine once the swelling went down. Out of needless worry that the swelling might not keep going down because she couldn’t fix the habit, she got forehead Botox around day ten. She had Botox regularly once every 4 months.
And we waited, thinking it would go down someday.. but 6 months.. then 1 year passed, and it was still sausage-like.. When she opened her eyes with a lot of strength, it was quite pretty. So we held out for 1 year, but when she opened her eyes naturally in daily life, it was just sausage-like, so I thought waiting any longer was meaningless and decided on revision surgery.
We looked into several hospitals and eventually had revision surgery at the 1-year mark after the first surgery. After several consultations where she could have had a more glamorous line and almond-shaped inner corners, we ultimately again chose a director who pursued a natural line while touching as little as possible. Because the line became thinner compared with the first surgery, scar tissue from the original line appeared, which is upsetting, but we are consoling each other by saying it isn’t noticeable unless you look closely. Now her habit of opening her eyes with her forehead is completely corrected, and she has eyes with natural double eyelids.
Mom’s case
I originally had double eyelids, but as I got older and lost fat in my eyelids, multiple lines formed. lol I hesitated over whether to do it when I got older, but they said that as you age, the eyelids stretch and wrinkles increase, so the probability of the sutured skin becoming uneven rises, so I decided to do it now.
My eyelids were thin and I originally had double eyelids, so it was an easy surgical case. Buried-suture was possible too, but they said incision is still the method without worry of it coming undone, and the hospitals where my daughter had 4 consultations all said almost the same thing. During the consultations, we talked a lot about my daughter, and mine was almost cut off at 3 minutes. I had already decided that once we chose the hospital for my daughter’s surgery, I would do mine there too. The surgery went well, and after the stitches were removed at 1 week, the swelling was almost gone too. By 2 weeks, recovery was over. When I meet close friends, nobody knows I had surgery until I tell them. When I say I had double-eyelid surgery, they all react the same, saying didn’t you already have them, didn’t it heal too quickly haha
Seeing how two reviews can differ at the same hospital, it really does seem case by case.. I’m upset that my daughter was still young but had to have surgery twice, but even though she didn’t have ptosis correction, her habit of opening her eyes with her forehead is now fixed, so I also feel grateful to the doctor who did the first surgery. The revision doctor also said it was correct that ptosis correction was not needed. He only advised that each person’s desired line and surgically possible line are different, so you need to look into that carefully.
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