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Okay, I think I am confused. I have heard "lid retraction", sclera show, & lower droop. Do all these terms basically mean the same thing...that the lower lid is drooping or pulling away from the eye and that the white part of the eye is showing above the lid where it shouldn't be?
Second part of the question is --if you have this --it seems as though there are several options?????? A canthoplexy, the other "canthro" word which I can't think of right now, or to have a a few stitches put in the corner of the eye???? Now I realize, it would depend on the patient and the surgeon--but do they all basically fix the same thing...."the lower droop"?? Thanks for all the help in advance.
Would any of these procedures fix left over wrinkles in the lower eye where the "bag" was?


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Scleral show means that white shows above or below the iris of your eye. Lid retraction means that your lower or upper eye does not follow the normal shape of a normal eyelid, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you see a lot of white. Droop is the same thing.
Canthopexy is when a surgeon tightens the tendons that "sling" your eye, but does not disattach them. Canthoplasty is when the tendons are disattached and reassembled at the outside corner - more technical and invasive. Most people gets cathopexies, which can cause that unnatural slant until it settles.
They won't really help wrinkes unless you have a severe droop and the wrinkles are actually gathered /mmh/product/beauty/index.vm?procid=13" target=_blank>skin from the shortening of your eye (making it more round).
Hope that helps!


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Wow!After reading these posts for 9 months-you think I would have gotten it by now! I really appreciate the information!!!!! Thanks so much! I go to see the ps on Monday for a 10 month check up and most of the time my eye lids line up with the top and bottom of the iris. However, it seems if I'm tired, there is a droop that shows the sclerea towards the outside of my eyes on the bottom. I think that I do have more /mmh/product/beauty/index.vm?procid=13" target=_blank>wrinkles, but I am 50. I had wrinkles there before, But I think the "bags" filled them out so to speak. I will put a link to my pics with afters taken at 4-5 months.
I do have small bumps on the outside of my eyes which he will remove in his office, if I desire. Anything else I should mention? Thanks so much. I will need to put this in another post.


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Hi Turning 50
Just ask your doctor what is the life span of having stitches put in the corners to lift them. My /mmh/product/eyelidsurgery/index.vm?procid=6" target=_blank>eyes are drooping again after 6 months and the stitches are still in, so it was a failure. I am going to have all of the tissue below the eye lifted up by another ps, so it should be permanent. Once everything is lifted a 2nd procedure will give me back a curve to the corners and I suppose this will be by tightening the tendons again in the outer corners but at least it will stay this time if the tissue below my eye is lifted and not stretching and pulling the tendon back down.
I go to see my new ps on Monday also, and hopefully will set a date for my revision surgery. I am so excited it will all soon be sorted out but Im dreading hiding through the healing process again. Apparently, my eyes will be pulled up very, very high and will take some months to settle back into their proper place. I wont ever have had so many different looks over the course of a couple of years. My new ps said that I dont look any better (as stated by butcher) after my bleph. Just different. Now Im going to acquire a very asian look for a while and who knows what I will look like after that. A whole lot better than I do now, I hope. BTW. You can see the stitches through my /mmh/product/beauty/index.vm?procid=13" target=_blank>skin that were left in, in the form of bumps, or lumps even. You may want to ask him what kind of stitches he will be using. Permanent or dissolvable.
Good luck on Monday


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Thank you. I'm sorry the stitch process didn't work for you. I'm sorry if you miunderstood, neither my ps or myself has mentioned the lower lids at all. I was just wondering if the stitching was successful. I'm a little concerned because sometimes when i am tired my lower lids do droop--at least so it appears to me. I tried to post a couple of pictures that were taken at about 5 months that were within 3 days of each other and to me-the /mmh/product/eyelidsurgery/index.vm?procid=6" target=_blank>eye droop looks ok in 1-2 of the pics and not so good in another. I don't know. I'm really confused.
Good luck with your new ps. I think it's so brave of you to go thru all the healing time again. I know it must be exciting yet wcary at the same time. Thanks for all the info.


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Hi
I really hope that everything works out well for you and your new PS!
Kimberly