If You're Curious About Side Effects of Lower Eye Corner Surgery (feat. Conjunctival Edema)

Lower eye corner surgery, which is drawing as much attention as the outer eye corner surgery, is #lowereyecornersurgery. If inner eye corner surgery and upper eye corner surgery are procedures that expand the front and upper parts of the eye, then outer eye corner surgery and lower eye corner surgery are procedures that expand the back and lower parts of the eye.

The effect of lower eye corner surgery, assuming good eye-opening strength, is to round the lower eye area downward so the eyes look bigger and more rounded, while also making the expression look softer because the eyes appear slightly drooped. It is as if makeup has been applied to the lower eye area and the outer corner of the eye.

Before undergoing lower eye corner surgery, to achieve this effect, you need to consider the two related factors of recovery time and the possibility of recurrence. Lower eye corner surgery is generally known to have a short recovery period, but for the recovery period to be short, the degree of widening must be kept slight. In that case, there may be a possibility of recurrence, where the lowered lower eye area loosens again within less than a year.

What you need to consider regarding the degree of widening in lower eye corner surgery!!

Recovery time - possibility of recurrence

If the recovery time is short, the possibility of recurrence increases, and if the recovery time is long, the possibility of recurrence decreases.

You need to understand this inverse relationship well and decide on the degree of widening!

To reduce the possibility of recurrence, the widening must initially be made quite significant, but then the recovery period becomes as long as that of outer eye corner surgery. Therefore, you should carefully weigh the degree of widening you want against the recovery period you can tolerate before deciding.

#ConjunctivalEdema, which inevitably appears when the recovery period becomes longer, is something everyone wonders about as a #sideeffectoflowereyecornersurgery. To conclude first: conjunctival edema that commonly appears after outer eye corner surgery or lower eye corner surgery is not a side effect. Just as the outer skin can bruise and swell after surgery, the conjunctiva, the tissue lining the inside of the eye, can also swell and bruise; this is conjunctival edema. Although the degree varies, this conjunctival edema naturally appears during the postoperative healing process, and after a certain period of time it is all absorbed and disappears.

Conjunctival edema

It is not a side effect of lower eye corner surgery!

One more point: since lower eye corner surgery involves incising the conjunctiva on the inside of the eye, it is often not sutured. In such cases, due to eyelid movement, the incision line may not adhere neatly and may heal with an unusual adhesion. So after lower eye corner surgery, it is better to carefully suture the conjunctiva inside the eye as well!