by Joseph Walrath | Nov 25, 2018 | Brow lifting, Cosmetic, Reconstruction
Advantages and disadvantages of direct brow lifting Direct brow lifting has many advantages over other forms of brow lifting, and one major disadvantage. I’ll start with the disadvantage: there is a scar above the eyebrow. That is not to be...
by Joseph Walrath | May 29, 2018 | Blepharoplasty, Brow lifting, Cosmetic
This patient complained of visual obstruction from the upper lids. The upper lid tissue folded over the lashes and into the visual axis. It was appropriate to consider upper lid surgery to be medical in nature, and formal visual field testing was...
by Joseph Walrath | Nov 8, 2017 | Brow lifting, Ectropion, Eyelid Malposition, Reconstruction, Tumor
This 81 year old gentleman came to see me because he had poor vision from a drooping brow, and discomfort from a folded out lower lid. He had a significant history of sun exposure throughout his life and developed an extensive squamous cell carcinoma on the...
by Joseph Walrath | Dec 22, 2015 | Blepharoplasty, Brow lifting, Cosmetic
This patient complained of heavy upper lids, eyebrow asymmetry, and some circles beneath the lower lids. She elected to undergo cosmetic browlifting, with right sided corrugator release through the upper blepharoplasty incision. She also underwent bilateral upper...
by Joseph Walrath | Sep 21, 2015 | Blepharoplasty, Brow lifting, Cosmetic, Uncategorized
There is not a week of office visits that goes by without at least one patient presenting with inappropriately-placed upper lid incisions from prior surgery. Within the past week, there were two such notable patients: The first patient manifested lid crease...
by Joseph Walrath | Aug 18, 2014 | Blepharoplasty, Brow lifting, Cosmetic, Uncategorized
The brow position can be modified in selected patients using internal approaches: the muscles that depress the brow medially (toward the nose) can be released from within the upper blepharoplasty incision. In these procedures, no separate incision is required (no...
