Will Eye Horizontal Length and Canthoplasty Really Make Eyes Longer?

People with small eyes often have no double eyelids, weak eye-opening strength, and severe epicanthal folds, making it a complete mess overall. In particular, many of these people have a short #eyehorizontallength. When the eye length is short, even if they get double eyelid surgery, the eyes are said to look more like characteristic #clameyedoublesurgery rather than looking bigger or prettier.

With clam eyes, even after double eyelid surgery, the short eyes do not look longer or larger, so there is a limit to how much the eyes can be enlarged with double eyelid surgery alone, and eye-opening correction or #eyecanthoplasty becomes necessary. In fact, eye-opening correction enlarges the eyes vertically, so it is not a surgery that increases the horizontal length of the eyes. The surgeries that increase eye horizontal length are canthoplasty procedures, that is, epicanthoplasty or lateral canthoplasty.

However, if only epicanthoplasty is performed and only the inner corners of the eyes become longer, the eyes may look too close together. For the usual optimal eye-lengthening effect, it is more effective to perform both epicanthoplasty and lateral canthoplasty at the same time.

If you try to increase eye length with only epicanthoplasty without lateral canthoplasty, overly aggressive epicanthoplasty may make the eyes look too close together or leave a lot of scar tissue near the inner corners of the eyes. So, for the purpose of increasing eye horizontal length, you should consider lateral canthoplasty together with epicanthoplasty.

When eye-opening correction and epicanthoplasty are done appropriately, lateral canthoplasty alone can produce the effect of making the outer part of the eyes longer, and at the same time, slightly lowering the outer corners of the eyes can also make the overall impression look softer.

Sometimes people hope that lower canthoplasty might also make the eyes longer horizontally, but remember that simple double eyelid surgery or lower canthoplasty alone cannot make the eyes longer. It is important to consult with a board-certified plastic surgeon about the appropriate canthoplasty procedure so that you can achieve the best result suited to your own eyes!