Eyelid Reconstruction

(Warning some items have graphic surgical images).

Cosmetic Concern:  75-year old woman lost the use of her right eye as a child.  She wears a glass shell over the right eye.  For the past 50 years, her right upper eyelid has been droopy.

Diagnosis:

1. Non-seeing right eye.

2. Right upper eyelid ptosis

Treatment:

1. Right upper eyelid ptosis surgery.

2. Hand painted contact lens for the right eye.

Discussion:

Once the right upper eyelid ptosis surgery was performed, the ocularist created a hand painted contact lens completing the rehabilitation.