Learn from the experiences of patients who had an eyelid surgery that went wrong

When it comes to your eyes, don’t cut costs. The following comments from women and men of all ages and ethnic backgrounds represent how choosing economical over experience can result in less than satisfactory results. Some of these patients opted to have original procedure done offshore due to the promising low price incredible results.

Others entrusted their procedure to a surgical generalist (general plastic surgeon, head and neck cosmetic surgeon, ENT, dermatologist) who do not specialize in eyelid surgery. All did not get what they were promised – and a few misfortunate individuals had more than one eyelid surgery go wrong.

Learn why they were disappointed by reading the following excerpts of their letters to Corrective Surgery, Toronto Eyelid Surgery, which are presented as they were submitted, save for minor edits done for spelling or grammar reasons.

The names of the writers and the places where they live have been omitted to protect their privacy. Our team welcomes all inquiries however please keep in mind: our team cannot make recommendations until seeing you in person and there are some patient issues from botched sugeries that are impossible correct.

“Both lower lids are sagging – Corrective Surgery”

“I had a lower eyelid surgery. The result is not good. Both lower lids are sagging a lot. The bruising is gone, but my eyes are burning, red and tire easily. I would like a consult to discuss options as my surgeon is offshore and I don’t want to go back there.”

“One eye looks droopy”

“I am Asian and have had a double eyelid procedure. One lid is smaller than the other, which makes one eye look droopy. I am interested in having the one eye operated on so that it matches my other eyelid.”

“My appearance doesn’t look nice”

“Hi, I had a lot of treatments done on my lower eye lids – cauterization, laser, fat injection. My appearance does not look nice, my eyes look puffy. I would like to have a consult with Dr. Oestreicher.”

“Drooping and unattractive eyelids”

“I need corrective surgery on my eyelids as past surgeries have left undesirable results. A lower face lift was done in 2011, but my brow was not done and this may have contributed to my drooping and unattractive eyelids. I have scarring from my upper blepharoplasty and my lower eyelid lines are too thick.”

“Eyes not asymmetrical”

“I would like a consultation to discuss correction of an Asian blepharoplasty surgery done over a year ago. My eyes are not asymmetrical and one eye looks droopy.”

“Get my pre-surgical eyes back”

“I want to talk to Dr. Oestreicher about a possible eyelid revision. I had it done offshore and the result is that my lower eyelid is too horizontal and not lifted. (Valium) I want to ask Dr. Oestreicher if it is possible to get my natural pre-surgical eyes back.”

“Very unhappy”

“I had a lower blepharoplasty. Very unhappy with results and am seeking an opinion on my options at this point.”

“Eyelid has never closed properly”

“I would like to know the wait time to see Dr. Oestreicher. I had an upper eyelid surgery done ten years ago. It needs to be done again. One of my eyelids has never really closed properly.”

“Now my eye is worse than when I went in.”

“I have Ptosis. I had a bad surgery and now my eye is worse than when I went in. Does correction of the surgery count as cosmetic surgery and how much would it cost?”