Patient 1
Reconstructive & Cosmetic
66-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of heavy eyelids blocking her vision & makeup smudging on the upper eyelids.
Procedure: Bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (internal), upper eyelid blepharoplasty, browlift (internal). (Cosmetic)
Timeline: 2 years after surgery.
Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 2
Reconstructive & Cosmetic
57-year-old Caucasian female. She had an upper eyelid blepharoplasty previously and complained of having heavy eyelids again.
Procedure: Bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (internal) & hairline browplasty, bilateral lateral canthus scar revision. (Cosmetic)
Timeline: 9 months after surgery & 8 weeks after revision. Incision redness will fade over 2-3 months.
Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 3
Cosmetic & Reconstructive
44-year old Caucasian female. She complained of heavy eyelids at the end of the work day. Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (extrernal), right browlift (internal). Timeline: 4 weeks after surgery. Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 4
Reconstructive
54-year-old Caucasian male. He complained of lashes rubbing his eyes and difficulty seeing due to hooded eyelids. Procedures: right upper eyelid ptosis repair (internal), bilateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty. Ocular rosacea was causing the lashes to turn inwards & was treated. Timeline: 2 months after surgery. Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 5
Reconstructive
78-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of difficulty seeing when driving. Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (external), bilateral upper eyelid blepahroplasty. Timeline: 10 week after surgery. Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 6
Reconstructive
72-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of needing to lift her eyebrows all the time to see better & looking tired. Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (internal), bilateral upper eyelid blepahroplasty. Timeline: 3 months after surgery. Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 7
Reconstructive
77-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of heavy eyelids affecting her vision. Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (internal), bilateral upper eyelid blepahroplasty. Timeline: 7 weeks after surgery. Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 8
Cosmetic & Reconstructive
61-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of not being able to get her right eye open enough to see and did not like the way her upper eyelids looked. Procedures: right upper eyelid ptosis repair (internal), bilateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty. Timeline: 7 weeks after surgery. Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 9
Reconstructive
62-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of difficulty seeing well when reading and driving at night.
Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (external), bilateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty.
Timeline: 6 weeks after surgery. Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 10
Reconstructive
54-year-old Asian female. She complained of watery eyes, difficulty seeing when reading and seeing her eyelashes in her vision. The watery eyes were corrected prior to eyelid surgery. She requested to see more of the area to place eyeshadow (in medical terms this is called the "tarsal platform show").
Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (external), bilateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty.
Timeline: 3 months after surgery. Note: eyelid swelling will continue to improve over the next 3 months.
Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 11
Reconstructive
70-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of asymmetrical appearance of the eyes, difficulty seeing when reading out of the left eye & blurry vision of the left eye.
Procedures: left upper eyelid ptosis repair (internal).
Timeline: 8 weeks after surgery.
Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 12
Reconstructive & Cosmetic
62-year-old Caucasian female. She complained of difficulty seeing the computer screen & a weight on the upper eyelids at the end of the day. She did not like the puffy bags under the eyes.
Procedures: biilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (external), bilateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty, cosmetic bilateral lower eyelid blepharoplasty.
Timeline: 6 months after surgery.
Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 13
Reconstructive
76-year-old Caucasian male. He complains of difficulty reading books and computer screens & difficulty seeing in the dark.
Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (external), bilalateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty.
Timeline: 9 week after surgery.
Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
Patient 14
Reconstructive
68-year-old Caucasian female. She complains of not reading anymore because it is a pain to see the books. She cannot see herself in the mirror anymore unless she tips her chin upwards.
Procedures: bilateral upper eyelid ptosis repair (external), bilalateral upper eyelid blepharoplasty.
Timeline: 11 weeks after surgery.
Surgeon: Caroline Vargason, MD PhD
Individual results may vary.
