Patient education
Hooded Eyes: Causes and Options
Written for someone deciding about their own eyelids rather than studying the subject. If you read only one guide, read the first, because separating an inherited shape from an acquired change decides what the other nine mean for you.
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10 guides
- Hooded Eyes: The Shape You Were Born With, or the Shape You Grew IntoUnderstanding
- Skin Excess, Brow Descent, or Both: Reading a Heavy Upper LidCauses
- How a Hooded Upper Lid Is AssessedAssessment
- When a Heavy Lid Is a Medical SignRed flags
- The Hooded Eye Ladder, From No Operation to OperationOptions
- What Hooding Treatment Cannot ChangeLimits
- Keeping a Hooded Lid Result Over YearsAftercare
- When Not to Operate on a Hooded LidDeciding
- Questions to Ask Before Hooded Eye SurgeryDeciding
- The Limit of Hooded Eye TreatmentLimits
Start with whether the brow or the lid is responsible
Arrange an assessment. We will measure where the brow sits, how much skin is hanging and what the tear film is doing, and say whether an eyelid operation, a brow operation or no operation is the honest answer.