canthoplasty makes the eye more rounder?

[strong_silent_type]

Two related procedures, canthopexy and canthoplasty, are used to elevate the lower lid when it has already fallen, or to prevent it from falling during a lower eyelid procedure. They work in different ways, and I generally only recommend one of them for my patients looking to restore a youthful look.
In my opinion, canthoplasty should be avoided in cosmetic eyelid procedures because it produces a rounder eye shape. By design, canthoplasty procedures make the lower lid frame of the eye more rounded, because they disassemble and reassemble the outside corner of the eye while shortening the lower lid.

Avoiding the Wrong Eyelid Surgery

I've found that the shape of the eye is determined by the relation of the upper and lower eyelids. In young adults with normal facial skeletons, the space between these upper and lower lids that frames the eye itself is long and narrow.

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[MoroccanGoku]

Does canthopexy also make eye rounder ?

 

[strong_silent_type]

Does canthopexy also make eye rounder ?

i still dont really get the difference

canthopexy is apparently less invasiv and more safe then canthoplasty but also delievers less good results and is apparenlty more for old people

however its near to impossible to find canthopexy before / after results - it would be interesting to compare them to canthoplasty results


...aaand there seem to be also a difference between "normal" canthopexy and lateral canthopexy

 

[strong_silent_type]

fuckkk

EYELID LATERAL CANTHOPLASTY | BEFORE & AFTER

https://cosmetic-surgery-hawaii.com/271-2/

 

[strong_silent_type]

from another thread

same goes for normal canthoplasty and lateral canthoplasty?

example:


lateral canthoplasty:

Outer Corner Extension (Lateral Canthoplasty)

[BK Plastic Surgery] Eye Surgery: Outer Corner Extension (Lateral Canthoplasty)
BK Plastic Surgery Hospital blog. Surgical method. Eyelid, Nose, Facial contouring, Breast augmentation

bkdyclinic.blogspot.com

Background: Many women in Asian countries chase larger and brighter eyes, but to most Asian people only double eye plasty and epicanthoplasty is not enough. As a result, aesthetic lateral canthoplasty, another procedure to lengthen the palpebral fissure, is becoming more and more popular. However, the current procedure of aesthetic lateral canthoplasty has many potential complications, restricting the wide application of this procedure. Methods: Here, the authors developed a minimally invasive method through gray line split and canthopexy to achieve lateral canthoplasty. Eighty-seven patients from February 2013 to January 2016 were included and had the procedure. The lengthen of the palpebral fissure was measured and photographs were also taken before the surgery and in the follow-up periods. Besides, the complications related to this procedure were also investigated. Results: The authors have performed aesthetic lateral canthoplasty in 87 patients, almost all of the follow-up patients have satisfactory results with a lengthen of palpebral fissure ranging from 2.3 to 4.2 mm. Through the long-term follow-up the authors found the lengthen of the palpebral fissure is stable. No serious complications like lacrimal system fistula or hypertrophic scars emerged except 1 patient with conjunctival exposure. Conclusions: Through this gray line split method, the authors can acquire larger and brighter eyes without serious complications. The authors think that this is a good method and worthy of promotion

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Aesthetic-Lateral-Canthoplasty:-a-Gray-Line-Split-Yuan-yuan-Ai-guo/7012f2c90225cfa6b545014645b0f0e71087daf8
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now how the eyes end up rounder. in opposite to that canthoplasty done by dr. taban make the eyes less round?

or is a canthoplasty just a description of a certain surgery technique at a certain part of the body which can lead to different aesthetic outcomes? just as jaw surgery can lead to different surgical outcomes depending what the surgeon choose to do (putting the maxilla backwards, forward, rotating clockwise or counterclockwise etc)?

 

[strong_silent_type]

@SurgerySoon you should know this. with your eye area you must be clearly an expert on cosmetical eye surgery procedures? i hope you just didnt focuse on implants like a total aspie?

 

[SurgerySoon]

@SurgerySoon you should know this. with your eye area you must be clearly an expert on cosmetical eye surgery procedures? i hope you just didnt focuse on implants like a total aspie?

To try to answer your question regarding why canthoplasty can sometimes leave the eyes looking rounder than they looked pre-surgery -- according to what Taban has told me as well as a few articles published by Dr. Steinsapir (another extremely well-reputed oculoplastic surgeon), for certain people whose eyes are especially bulgy, doing a canthoplasty without lower eyelid retraction surgery can actually shorten the lid and cause it to bump up against the bottom of someone's eyeball, thus creating even more roundness. Taban compares it to trying to over-tighten the pants belt of someone who is a super fat ass -- all you're going to do is make the belt look even more rounded since you're not adding any additional length to the belt to accommodate the protrusion of the stomach.

 

[strong_silent_type]

To try to answer your question regarding why canthoplasty can sometimes leave the eyes looking rounder than they looked pre-surgery -- according to what Taban has told me as well as a few articles published by Dr. Steinsapir (another extremely well-reputed oculoplastic surgeon), for certain people whose eyes are especially bulgy, doing a canthoplasty without lower eyelid retraction surgery can actually shorten the lid and cause it to bump up against the bottom of someone's eyeball, thus creating even more roundness. Taban compares it to trying to over-tighten the pants belt of someone who is a super fat ass -- all you're going to do is make the belt look even more rounded since you're not adding any additional length to the belt to accommodate the protrusion of the stomach.

excellent post. thank you

 

[SurgerySoon]

excellent post. thank you

No problem. I would definitely schedule a consultation with Dr. Taban if you want more authoritative info, though

 

[strong_silent_type]

No problem. I would definitely schedule a consultation with Dr. Taban if you want more authoritative info, though

https://looksmax.org/threads/dr-taban-replies-to-my-mail-eye-shape-change-through-fillers.74837/

 

[catastaire]

To try to answer your question regarding why canthoplasty can sometimes leave the eyes looking rounder than they looked pre-surgery -- according to what Taban has told me as well as a few articles published by Dr. Steinsapir (another extremely well-reputed oculoplastic surgeon), for certain people whose eyes are especially bulgy, doing a canthoplasty without lower eyelid retraction surgery can actually shorten the lid and cause it to bump up against the bottom of someone's eyeball, thus creating even more roundness. Taban compares it to trying to over-tighten the pants belt of someone who is a super fat ass -- all you're going to do is make the belt look even more rounded since you're not adding any additional length to the belt to accommodate the protrusion of the stomach.

This analogy is really interesting...seeing that if one has "especially bulgy eyes" then lower eyelid retraction surgery isn't really going to be of much help to canthoplasty either.

Another similar analogy I've heard on this actually comes from Dr. Raymond Douglas who (just like your fat person in the tight belted jeans) uses the analogy of a ice cream cone whose opening is too small for the ice cream that sits on top of it. The ice cream being the "especially bulgy eyeball" and the ice cream cone being the orbital space that the eyeball sits in with the top of the cone being the opening of the eye where the lid opens and closes. With the ice cream sitting on top, the lower lid bumps against the bottom of the eyeball creating the roundness as you describe it. But the lid cannot be pulled up via lower lid surgery until the bulgy eyeball is pushed further back into the orbital socket and out of the way of the lid. The only way of doing this of course is by using a bigger ice cream cone through which the ice cream can be pushed all the way back in its orbital socket creating the room for the lower eyelid to be pulled up and over the sclera of the eyeball reaching the bottom iris.

This "bigger ice cream cone" of course being accomplished only through Orbital Decompression. Which explains why so many ocular plastic surgeons are now using this procedure as the cosmetic foundation for canthoplasty/lower eyelid retraction surgeries outside of its original purpose for thyroid/grave's disease.

This is terribly shitty news for those of us who just want a simple canthoplasty done fast, reliably, safe and on the cheap as OD makes things MUCH more complicated. OD is VERY expensive, VERY risky, rare to have done and VERY painful. But we do what we can for the looksmax I guess!