Resolving Plastic Surgery Side Effects: Case 02 [Lagophthalmos, Side Effects After Canthoplasty]

Do difficult surgeries cause more side effects?Or is it the most commonly performed surgeries that cause more?

Here, “plastic surgery side effects” refers to cases in which the result of plastic surgery is not a normal one.

please understand it as a blanket term for any unwanted problem that has appeared.

What Are “Plastic Surgery Side Effects”?

Plastic surgery side effects are cases in which a cosmetic surgery or treatment leaves behind inflammation, nerve damage, deformity caused by anatomical changes, functional impairment, and the like.

In other words, when a surgery or treatment leaves, cosmetically or functionally, an unwanted result or an abnormal result that does not usually occur, it is collectively called a “plastic surgery side effect,” and this is also a situation that calls for secondary or revision surgery.

So, among those who visit our clinic for revision surgery, which plastic surgery side effects are seen most often,

Let us look at how these can be prevented and how secondary surgery to correct them should be carried out.

The following are the typical problems

of patients who visited Won-Suk Kook Plastic Surgery to resolve plastic surgery side effects.
The eyes are regarded as the area where plastic surgery is performed most often.Accordingly, surgery here changes a person's overall impression considerably, and there are many surgical methods.
Among them, lateral canthoplasty is chosen when the eyes are short in width or the outer corners slant upward, in order to lengthen the eyesand soften the look of the outer corners.
However, except in very special cases, I do not recommend surgery to lower the outer corners or lateral canthoplasty.
This is because these surgeries lead to side effects such as stinging eyes, excessive tearing, exposed red mucosa with redness, and outer corners that gape open in a "C" shape.

When such side effects occur, reconstruction after lateral canthoplasty (lateral canthal reconstruction) is performed to restore a clean outer corner.

The left image shows the patient's natural eyes before any surgery.To achieve a more open look, this patient had lateral canthoplasty 1 year ago.
However, 1 year after the lateral canthoplasty, the outer corners had become red and the mucosa was exposed,and in the right eye the opening was so marked that the outer corner was deformed into a "C" shape.

Red tissue is exposed at the outer corner, and the corner has opened into a "C"-shaped deformity.A wide area of the conjunctiva (the white of the eye) is red.

The left eye also had lateral canthoplasty, but it was not opened as far, so although exposed red tissue and rednessare present, they are not severe.

On the left, the outer corner can be seen gaping widely in a "C" shape.On the right as well, redness and an opened outer corner are seen.

After lateral canthal reconstruction, the apex of the outer corner meets precisely and the "C"-shaped deformity is gone.The red tissue and conjunctival redness have disappeared, and the eye can be seen to have returned to a normal shape. The patient also reported that the stinging and the dry, gritty feeling in the eyes had gone.

The outer corner that had been gaping now closes to a point. The tarsal plate, which had been pulled downward, now rises slightly, forming a natural curve.
 
In the left eye as well, the gaping outer corner has been brought together. The red tissue and reddened conjunctiva are gone, and a natural eye shape has formed.The stinging and the dry, gritty feeling in the eyes have also disappeared completely.