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One of the important ways to improve swelling and the overall recovery process after Asian eyelid surgery is to minimize tissue burning. Tissue burning can happen during double eyelid surgery because of bleeding. Bleeding occurs during double eyelid surgery because...

Patients with pre-existing small or low double eyelid fold often wonder what the surgeon will do with the low double eyelid fold or crease. Unlike a high double eyelid fold or crease in Asian eyelid, a small or low double eyelid fold...

Patients ask how long the recovery process will be after surgery. Immediately after surgery, the patient will experience some swelling but will not have issues with vision (sight) and thus can rest at home or at a hotel. The pain will be minimal and it can...

Patients are concerned about anesthesia when it comes to Asian eyelid surgery or double eyelid surgery. There are three types of anesthesia that can be used in Asian eyelid surgery or double eyelid surgery. One is general anesthesia. The second is intravenous sedation (IV...

Patients with significant excess upper eyelid skin hooding have few choices. One is to remove upper eyelid skin from the double eyelid fold line. However, the downside of this method is that the heavy eyelid brow skin and the brow...

Many people who desire Asian eyelid surgery or double eyelid surgery wish to have eyelash eversion. Eversion means that the eyelashes are flipped upward so that the lashes will not insert into the eyes. Many Asian eyelids have eyelashes that invert. If...

There are two types of Asian eyelids. Those with a double eyelid fold and those with only monolids (no double eyelid folds or crease). In Asian eyelid surgery, the first thing to decide whether there are excess skin hooding or not. If...

In performing Asian eyelid surgery, one of the anatomic components that need to be evaluated is the thickness of the skin. Within the Asian eyelid skin, there are thin skin region, a medium thickness skin region, and a thick skin region....

Non-Asians have a naturally appearing high double eyelid fold. It is also known as an outfold double eyelid. An outfold or a high fold occurs in non-Asians because they do not have an epicanthal fold. An epicanthal fold has two...

If there are issues with high double eyelid folds, then why do some Asian patients want high double eyelids folds? To answer that, we have to see what kind of patients want high double eyelid folds. Among Asians, more Chinese and South...