Are you looking for bulging eye treatment? We can help!

Do you have bulging eyes that cause you worry over? Do you stress trying to downplay your prominent eyes with  make up and cover up techniques. Maybe it's time you considered a specialist in oculoplastic surgery, and we just happen to be specialists in oculoplastics.

A young Asian woman, 23 years old, came to us worrying about the appearance of her bulging eyeballs. She had tried masking the bulginess for years using make up; however, this just led to her stressing more over her eyes. She finally felt she was old and mature enough to make the decision to put her problem in hands of a specialist in oculoplasty.

The eye contouring procedure was a success. We not only succeeded in pushing her eyes back, getting rid of the awkward protrusion, but the procedure also reduce the appearance of what appeared to bags under her eyes, and strengthened the appearance of her double-eyelid. 

We have more than 10 years of experience helping patients with pre and post-operative worries. Our experience allows us to finish the procedure in an hour or less, drastically reducing risk factors that could make for a complicated recovery period. If you are someone who is considering the protruded eye surgery, don't hesitate any longer. Come visit us by clicking the link below and let us know if you have any questions.

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Do you have bulging eyes? Want to change your prominent eyes? So did he. Transform your face with eye contour surgery.

A 30-year-old Asian male came to us complaining of his bulging eyes. He has had protruded eyeballs for as long as he could remember, and confessed that his eyes made him feel self conscious. We assured him that with our experience in the field, we could give help him become less self-conscious about his eyes with our orbital expansion technique, giving him the desired eye contour results that he desired.

He entrusted us with his eyes and we came through on our promise.

One month after surgery, the man's semblance to bulging "fish eyes" was improved on. However, as is mostly the case with prominent eye surgery, the swelling behind the takes months to subside. As was the case of our patient, one month after there was still a bulginess and uneveness due to swelling. Three years later, we caught up with our happy patient.

He had gotten even more handsome. With the swelling completely subsided, his face exuberated with a confidence that was not there when he first walked into a our clinic three years prior.

We have more than 10 years of experience helping patients with pre and post-operative worries. Our experience allows us to finish the procedure in an hour or less, drastically reducing risk factors that could make for a complicated recovery period. If you are someone who is considering the protruded eye surgery, don't hesitate any longer. Come visit us by clicking the link below and let us know if you have any questions.

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Is there a way to change the distance between my pupils? Little-Known Facts About Orbital Expansion Surgery

Advances in technology allow for medical procedures that were not possible in the past. 

Lasers can be used to cut and reshape the eye to improve visual acuity -- Lasik/Lasek. Bone and tissue in the eye socket can be removed or pushed in to make more room for protruded eyeballs to sit more comfortably in the face. These kinds of procedures can even be done with minimal scarring. 

With that said, is there a way to change the distance between the pupils? Our medical expert says, "yes!" Let's take a medical look at what changing the distance would involve. 

The interpupillary distance, or pupillary distance, is the distance measured between the center of the pupils of the eyes. The distance is measured in millimeters, and plays an important role in the general feel of a face. To go about changing the distance, orbital expansion surgery would have to be performed.

In orbital expansion surgery, orbital bone (the bone that makes up the eye socket) can be cut and removed or pushed in. Depending when on what part of the orbital wall is cut determines how the pupillary distance can change. 

The orbital wall is made up of three walls, respectively: the inferior wall, the medial wall, and the lateral wall. When cuts are made to the medial wall, the innermost wall, the eyes move closer together naturally closing the pupillary distance. When cuts are made to the lateral wall, the outermost wall, the distance between the eyes grows farther apart resulting in a widening pupillary distance. 

The distance between the pupils of the eyes might not seem important, but a subtle difference of a few millimeters can make a surprisingly big difference.

We have more than 10 years of experience helping patients with pre and post-operative worries. Our experience allows us to finish the procedure in an hour or less, drastically reducing risk factors that could make for a complicated recovery period. If you are someone who is considering the protruded eye surgery, don't hesitate any longer. Come visit us by clicking the link below and let us know if you have any questions.

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How long is recovery after surgery? How long is the procedure? What does recovery entail?

Are  you considering protruded eye surgery but are afraid because you don't know what to expect after surgery? Worry no more. We are going to explain what happens after surgery so that you have realistic expectations and make educated decisions regarding your surgery.

First, before getting into what to expect after surgery, an understanding what takes place during the procedure itself is important. In protruded eye surgery, depending on the reason the eye or eyes are protruded, bone making up the walls of the orbital room (the eye socket) can be cut and pushed in, orbital fat can be taken out from behind the eye, or a combination of both can be done. This is all done for the purpose of making more room in the orbital room for the eye. 

Fat and bone are removed from the orbit making the procedure an invasive one. As such, there is usually a lot of swelling around and inside of the eye socket. Though every case is different, severe swelling usually persists 1 ~ 2 weeks. During this time, the first two weeks, post-operative care is of the utmost importance. The eyes are very susceptible to infection, so special care should be taken to make sure the eyes are not touched or bumped. 

For the first two weeks, the body should be using its energy for healing and recovery. For this reason, strenuous activity should be avoided. This not only includes more general activities, like sports and exercise, but also activities that may be considered strenuous on the eyes, too (focusing with the eyes for extended periods of time in one place -- watching a computer monitor, watching TV, looking at a phone, reading, or looking at objects to close to the face). 

If there are no problems after the first two weeks of surgery, the rest of the recovery period will be a breeze. Severe swelling will most likely have all gone down; however, minimal swelling may persist as long as three months post surgery.

We have more than 10 years of experience helping patients with pre and post-operative worries. Our experience allows us to finish the procedure in an hour or less, drastically reducing risk factors that could make for a complicated recovery period. If you are someone who is considering the protruded eye surgery, don't hesitate any longer. Come visit us by clicking the link below and let us know if you have any questions.

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EFIL Staff

I have bulgy eyes! Why do my eyes look so protruded? What treatment option is there for my bulgy eyes?

Do you have bulgy eyes? You are not alone. There are so many people suffering from problems with eye protrusion that protruded eye surgery, once considered a dangerous procedure and only used in emergency situations, is now sought for cosmetic reasons. Without getting into too much medical jargon, let's take a look at what causes eyes to bulge, and then take a look at the medical procedure used to correct the problem.

When eyes protrude awkwardly outside of the head, the main reason will always be due to lack of space behind the eye in the eye socket. A crowded eye socket causes the eyeball to protrude forward. There are many medical factors that cause an eye socket to be "crowded". The one we address here is when the bones making up the inner wall of the orbital room (eye socket) is convex.

A convex inner orbital wall makes for less room for the eye to sit properly. Eyeball protrusion is an unavoidable result. What we here at EFIL do in this case, is osteotomize some of the orbital bone to expand the orbital room and make more room for the eyeball. Dr. Peter Kim of EFIL Plastic Surgery Clinic gives an overview of the explanation in this YouTube video. If you are interested, we encourage you to click on it and taking a look.

If you have any other questions or concerns regarding bulging eyes, surgery for bulging eyes, or info on plastic surgery in general please visit us by clicking the link below.

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Wearing glasses causes eye bulginess in childhood? Is that true? What is the relationship between glasses and eye protrusion?

There are rumors that wearing glasses early in childhood can cause eye bulginess later on. There does seem to a disproportionate number of "bulgy" eyes in those that regularly wore glasses in childhood versus those that did not. The problem here deserves a closer look.

What is eye bulginess? Eyes can naturally bulge due to a lack of space in the eye socket. This can be congenital, or it can develop. There are a number of different conditions (e.g. thyroid dysfunction) , habits (e.g. sporadic breath holding), factors (e.g. hereditary shallow eye sockets) that can directly or indirectly cause eyes to bulge. When this happens, the eyes end up being pushed from their intended position to a new, more uncomfortable one.

Imagine slightly protruding eye balls in a growing child. Due to growingly awkward eye positioning, eye sight will undoubtedly be affected. In most cases, glasses are the go-to solution to solve this problem. This is where we can start to see a pattern. First there is eye protrusion, then changes in eye sight come afterwards.

There is little medical evidence to support claims that glasses cause proptosis eye bulginess). However, for reasons explained above, the onset of early proptosis has been proven to negatively affect eye sight. Therefore, the correct way to understand the situation would be that eye protrusion in young eyes worsens eye sight which in turn causes the individual to wear glasses. Glasses do not cause proptosis.

 There are many out there with questions about their eyes and problems concerning them, especially individuals dealing with bulging eyes. We here are EFIL Plastic Surgery are experts in eye protrusion and corrective procedures regarding it.

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Breathing habits can cause early eye protrusion in children?! What really causes bulging eyes?

Everyone knows what bulgy eyes can look like (think Kermit the Frog); however, the reasons behind eye bulge are not as commonly understood. We would like to address of few of them.

Bulgy eyes (known medically as exophthalmos or proptosis) can be congenital, something present since birth, it be can develop as a result of thyroid dysfunction, eye bulginess can even develop due to habits that affect orbital bone growth in the eyes. First, let's discuss the more widely understood causes: the first two causes mentioned, congenital eye bulginess and thyroid dysfunction-related eye bulginess.

Congenital eye protrusion is due to what doctor's call a "shallow orbit". The word "orbit" refers to the eye socket. When that space is too shallow to accommodate the eye properly, the eyeball protrudes. 

Eye bulginess that occurs as a result of thyroid dysfunction is more serious. The thyroid gland produces hormones. When there is an overproduction of thyroid hormones, reactions in the tissue around the eyes can occur causing the tissue to swell. This swelling of tissue causes pressure behind the eye to increase inevitably pushing the eyes forward and causing them to protrude.

        (the ethmoid bone, unfortunately blurred, when seen from below)

The last cause, and more interesting one, that we will cover is the development of eye bulginess due to habits in childhood. This involves the ethmoid bone. The ethmoid bone is a bone the separates the brain from the sinus cavity and can be found between the eyes. It makes up the medial wall, or middle portion, of the orbital room (eye socket). It houses a bunch of structures that make up the sinus and is important in allowing respiration through the nose. When growing children habits that causes pressure in the sinus cavity to increase, say sporadically holding one's breath, the ethmoid bone may protrude slightly outward into the orbit. This can limit the space available in the orbital room for the eye to sit comfortably in and, consequentially, result in proptosis (eye protrusion). 

If you are someone suffering from eye protrusion, or what appears to be eye protrusion -- whether you have a naturally shallow orbit, a convex-shaped (outward protruding) ethmoid bone, or thyroid induced eye protrusion -- we here at EFIL can help.

We have more than 10 years of experience in facial contour and corrective eye protrusion surgery. Feel to visit our website at the link below.

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