After years of deliberation, you finally had double eyelid surgery.
You felt you had got a big thing out of the way and were ready to rest and recover.
But then that uneasy feeling creeps in...
Did you get the sense that your surgery had gone wrong?
With that subtly uncomfortable feeling,
you tell yourself it will be fine once time passes,
but does the waiting feel unbearable?
You may well be unhappy with it aesthetically,
but those who are most troubled are the ones suffering from a stiff, tight feeling
every time they open their eyes, wondering whether the adhesion was properly released.
Some may be distressed because, every time they look in the mirror, the mucous membrane
seems to be showing and the eyes open too wide.
These are overcorrection and multiple folds, the representative functional complications.
If it has not been long since your surgery, you can have surgery right away!
It is called early correction because the correction is done early~
You need to have early correction within a few days at the earliest, or within 2–3 weeks at the latest.
If you miss that golden window by even a little, you will have to wait a full six months.
Some of you will have taken hope from this.
Some may ask, "So my eyes have turned into sausage eyes — I can have them lowered, right?"
You may well want to ask that.
Unfortunately, however, changing the line is not possible...
That is because drawing a new line below the existing one
cuts off the blood supply and causes the tissue to become necrotic.
It must be hard even to look at anyone with your appearance changed,
and we are sorry that we cannot give you a more hopeful answer.
So who is it that has early correction?
Mainly patients who have developed overcorrection or multiple folds.
First, overcorrection is the phenomenon in which the eyes open with a startled, staring look
because too much ptosis correction was applied.
This symptom improves considerably once the ptosis correction is released.
Overcorrection is extremely uncomfortable functionally,
because the eyes open too wide regardless of your own intention.
If you come to the clinic quickly, it can be resolved.
However, if a patient who has had early correction for overcorrection also wants
the line changed, please remember that unfortunately only the overcorrection can be addressed,
and the line change has to wait six months.
There are also patients bothered by the feel of the eyelid
when opening the eyes because of multiple folds.
Fortunately, these patients too can improve considerably if the adhesion causing
the multiple folds is released in early correction surgery.
So we have looked at the representative cases
in which early correction is possible.
You will have taken the plunge to have surgery, so a poor result
must be upsetting — but all the more reason to go quickly
to an experienced board-certified plastic surgeon
and get the right diagnosis and treatment.
Let us sum up at the end.
Early correction is possible up to 2–3 weeks after surgery.
Changing the line during early correction is not possible.
Early correction for multiple folds and for overcorrection are the ones commonly performed.
We will close this article by showing you some material on early correction.
An article on early correction written by the director himself
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