What surgery fixes one eye bing smaller than the other?

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Then it must probably not actuslly be smaller if its rare
Yeah, if I had to guess it's probably your orbital floor, that's a much more common asymmetry, and it can be used with reconstruction, probably with hydroxyapatite.

It could also reverse proptosis? Proptosis is like buggy eyes, but I guess you could have that in reverse, in only one eye, making one eye look deeper set and therefore "smaller"? I don't know, I'm not a doctor, but I'd guess the solution for that could be either orbital decompression surgery on the "bigger" eye, or "compression" (unsure if that even is a real procedure).

Either way, highly doubt you have one eye bigger in volume than the other, probably just an illusion, a plastic surgeon could probably run...
It depends on what you mean with "being" smaller, like appearing smaller or being actually smaller? Cuz if your eye just looks smaller it can be either because of your lower or upper eyelid before more closed than they should, on which case lower eyelid retraction or ptosis corrective surgery are probably what you're after.
 
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It depends on what you mean with "being" smaller, like appearing smaller or being actually smaller? Cuz if your eye just looks smaller it can be either because of your lower or upper eyelid before more closed than they should, on which case lower eyelid retraction or ptosis corrective surgery are probably what you're after.
No like actually being smaller, its not ptosis. Its nothing too crazy rhough.
 
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No like actually being smaller, its not ptosis. Its nothing too crazy rhough.
I mean for such a big structural issue I do not think there are any great solutions. Could it may be an orbital floor or eyeball pressure asymmetry instead of an actual size one? Maybe one eye sits lower or deeper into the eye socket? For those two there are also solutions, but for one of your eyes literally being smaller, I don't think there's much that can be done, and frankly sounds like a very rare condition to have.
 
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I mean for such a big structural issue I do not think there are any great solutions. Could it may be an orbital floor or eyeball pressure asymmetry instead of an actual size one? Maybe one eye sits lower or deeper into the eye socket? For those two there are also solutions, but for one of your eyes literally being smaller, I don't think there's much that can be done, and frankly sounds like a very rare condition to have.
Then it must probably not actuslly be smaller if its rare
 
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Then it must probably not actuslly be smaller if its rare
Yeah, if I had to guess it's probably your orbital floor, that's a much more common asymmetry, and it can be used with reconstruction, probably with hydroxyapatite.

It could also reverse proptosis? Proptosis is like buggy eyes, but I guess you could have that in reverse, in only one eye, making one eye look deeper set and therefore "smaller"? I don't know, I'm not a doctor, but I'd guess the solution for that could be either orbital decompression surgery on the "bigger" eye, or "compression" (unsure if that even is a real procedure).

Either way, highly doubt you have one eye bigger in volume than the other, probably just an illusion, a plastic surgeon could probably run the correct tests to find out what's your issue and how to fix it
 
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Yeah, if I had to guess it's probably your orbital floor, that's a much more common asymmetry, and it can be used with reconstruction, probably with hydroxyapatite.

It could also reverse proptosis? Proptosis is like buggy eyes, but I guess you could have that in reverse, in only one eye, making one eye look deeper set and therefore "smaller"? I don't know, I'm not a doctor, but I'd guess the solution for that could be either orbital decompression surgery on the "bigger" eye, or "compression" (unsure if that even is a real procedure).

Either way, highly doubt you have one eye bigger in volume than the other, probably just an illusion, a plastic surgeon could probably run the correct tests to find out what's your issue and how to fix it
Okay probably last post, but turns out "reverse proptosis" isn't a real thing, it's called enophthalmos
 
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