Your eyes are the window to the world around you, but their job would be extremely difficult without your eyelids.
Whether it’s dust and particles from the environment, dealing with sunlight, or getting protection from infections, eyelids are the silent partner in your vision, making sure you can enjoy seeing the world while guarding you from danger.
The muscles, skin, glands, and other parts of the eyelid help you in so many ways, so when something happens that affects their normal function, it's hard on your vision.
Several conditions can affect this part of your eyes, and while many solutions can help, eyelid surgery is sometimes the best way to manage these problems.
For help with eye problems, including eyelid issues, Drs. Hena Khaja, Soha Rafi, and the medical team at Texas Eye Doctors, P.A., are here to aid the residents of the McKinney, Texas, area.
The type of eyelid surgery can be reconstructive, medical, and cosmetic causes:
Head and facial injuries can lead to severe damage to your orbits, requiring treatment for fractures and repairing sockets. Some diseases can also cause damage that requires this process.
Problems like developing orbital tumors, lesions, dealing with Graves’ disease, eyelid issues resulting from Bell’s palsy, and ptosis (drooping eyelids) may need surgery to treat. In some cases, there is insurance coverage if excess eyelid skin blocks vision, pushes down on the eyelashes, or causes headaches due to frequent use of the forehead muscles to lift the lids.
Mild cases of ptosis can be considered a cosmetic treatment, but forehead or eyebrow lifts are definitely choices to improve your looks.
Eyelid repair can either be a stage in managing major ocular repair or an effective solution for treating structural issues or more minor problems.
Surgery on your eyelids can be done on the upper or lower lid by removing excess skin and fat.
Using this process, we can alleviate drooping that blocks vision, remove skin that causes unnatural folds, remove fatty deposits under the skin, reduce dark circles under the eyelids, and treat lower eyelid issues where the white in the tissue is showing.
The procedure starts with an incision, either where the new crease should be with the upper or along the lower lash line or inside the lid. Excess or drooping tissue is removed at this point.
Eyelid surgery helps with medical and cosmetic issues, but if sagging eyebrows are affecting how you see, this option can make all the difference in the world for how you see the world.
If you need this treatment or other ways to preserve your vision, make an appointment with Drs. Khaja, Rafi, and the Texas Eye Doctors, P.A. team today.
