Q&A Collection on Eye Surgery

Hello, this is Director Park Seong-hoon of AB Plastic Surgery.

I will answer the questions you have been curious about.

Q. Can male double eyelids be lowered or removed?

Yes, they can! In general, men do not prefer thick, high crease lines, so quite a few people come in for consultations wanting to lower or remove the line.

Whether it is a naturally high double eyelid or a double crease caused without surgery by the structure of the eyeball, weak eye-opening strength, or a small amount of fat, or a high double eyelid created by surgery, it is possible to lower the visible line or remove the existing line.

Methods such as removing skin from the existing scar or double eyelid line to lower it, or making a new incision at a lower line than the existing one through a method such as creating two lines, are used. Basically, the cause of the upper line or double crease must be identified.

Any adhesions that are pulling must be carefully released, and the structure of the eyeball and the amount of orbital fat must be checked. If necessary, the fat is adjusted downward, and eyelid correction surgery is performed to strengthen the eye-opening muscles. In this way, surgery is done to lower the line to the one we want or to remove the existing line.

Q. For male eyelid surgery, should I choose incision or non-incision? Would it be good to do canthoplasty as well?

For both incision and non-incision methods, the surgical approach is determined according to the patient's eye condition.

If the skin is thin, there is not much sagging, and the desired line can be formed well, the non-incision method can be the simplest and most effective surgery.

Additionally, if the forehead is used less and the eye-opening strength is good or only slightly weakened, non-incision eyelid correction can strengthen the fixation of the crease and improve eye-opening strength, producing good results. However, for people with thick skin, severe sagging, very weak eye-opening strength, ptosis, or a structurally sunken eye, incision eyelid correction is performed to firmly fix the crease so it does not loosen, provide definite eyelid correction, and remove skin, muscle, or internal fat as needed so that the desired line is maintained well. Canthoplasty is also a method that can effectively make the horizontal length of the eyes look longer. For people whose inner eye corners do not show much of the lacrimal caruncle, epicanthoplasty and upper canthoplasty can create a more open look and line at the front of the eyes, and while eye structure is important, lateral canthoplasty and lower canthoplasty can make the outer corners of the eyes look wider and more open.