Patient education
Ptosis Surgery: Guides
Twelve guides written for the person deciding, not the person studying. They follow one question each: whether the lid edge has moved or only the skin over it, what the lifting muscle still does, what the recovery asks of you, and when the answer is a physician rather than an operation.
All guides
12 guides
- The Lid Margin: Why a Small Measurement Decides the OperationDeciding
- Naming It Right: Ptosis, Hooded Skin or a Low BrowDeciding
- Levator Function: The Test That Changes the PlanAssessment
- Congenital Ptosis in a Child: The Timing QuestionCandidacy
- Acquired Ptosis: When It Is Not Just AgeingRed flags
- The Visual Field QuestionAssessment
- Dry Eye and the Risk of Taking Too Much LidRisks
- Levator Repair or a Sling: Two Different OperationsAlternatives
- When a Ptosis Repair and a Brow Lift Are Both ProposedDeciding
- Asymmetry Before and After Ptosis RepairExpectations
- The First Weeks After Lid Repair: What the Lid DoesRecovery
- When Ptosis Surgery Should Not Be DoneDeciding
Start with the measurement, not the operation
Arrange an assessment of the upper lids. We record where the edge of each lid sits and how much the lifting muscle still does, we separate loose skin from a low lid edge from a descended brow, and we say so when the droop needs a physician rather than a surgeon.