Causes of Double Eyelid Scars and How to Address Them

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Choosing plastic surgery has become much more common than in the past, but it is still true that it requires a lot of consideration, including cost, time, and psychological burden.

However, if you made the difficult decision to undergo double eyelid surgery for various reasons, but a scar remains after the operation? What if a side effect occurs after surgery? It would be truly upsetting.

Today, we will take a look at double eyelid scars, which many people worry about after double eyelid surgery, and how to address them.

What causes double eyelid scars?

Double eyelid scars occur when the line is fixed too deeply during double eyelid surgery. The typical symptoms are a sunken scar and eyelash lifting.

To explain the cause of double eyelid scars more simply, they often occur when the double eyelid is fixed too high or when it is directly fixed to the muscle that opens the eyes.

In such cases, the skin below the double eyelid line is pulled, becoming thinner and creating a height difference from the skin above the line.

As a result, a sunken scar, which is a double eyelid scar, and an unintended deep double eyelid line are formed.

In addition, the eyelashes are pulled upward, causing eyelash lifting.

If eye revision surgery is needed because of these issues, revision surgery is generally recommended after 6 months, when the hard scar tissue has softened, but depending on the patient’s condition, revision surgery may be possible regardless of timing.

However, when revision surgery is performed at this stage, there must be sufficient consultation between the medical team and the patient.

When performing double eyelid surgery, it is very important from the beginning to design it so that double eyelid scars do not form.

To prevent a sunken scar caused by fixation, it is important to design the double eyelid naturally.

And for it to sit naturally, it should be designed along the skin crease created by eye movement, and the skin crease created by eye movement refers to the crease that naturally folds when you close and open eyes that have not undergone surgery.

The second is to fix the depth of the double eyelid at the most appropriate level.

If it is fixed at position 1, then the sunken scar or eyelash lifting mentioned in today’s post may occur.

However, if it is positioned too low, as in position 3, the double eyelid may become loose or come undone, so it is advisable to fix it at the most appropriate height.

If a double eyelid scar has already formed, you need to find a solution through the two methods above, and to minimize an existing scar, you should choose the clinic more carefully than for the first surgery.

Even a small change to the eyes can alter the overall impression.

Double eyelid surgery must be designed properly from the start for a result without scars or side effects, and it is important to receive a customized procedure that suits your face and your eyes.

At AINIC, we conduct surgery after sufficient consultation with the patient and by applying a detailed surgical method.

If you are considering not only double eyelid scars, but also eye-related procedures such as double eyelid surgery or canthoplasty, find your own design with AINIC, which has performed more than 5,000 eye surgeries and revision surgeries.

Up to now, this has been AINIC, making you look as if you had always been beautiful from the beginning.

Thank you.