Droopy eyelids and ptosis
A droopy eyelid is either extra skin that hangs over the lid or a lid that sits too low because its lifting muscle has stretched. Ptosis repair tightens that muscle; eye drops lift a mildly low lid for hours.
Droopy eyelids and ptosis procedures
Each page covers what the operation treats, how it is done, the evidence, the risks and the recovery, with a PubMed link on every claim.
Droopy eyelids
A droopy eyelid is either excess skin hanging over the lid margin (dermatochalasis) or the lid margin itself sitting too low (ptosis), and the two causes need different treatment. Four measurements (palpebral fissure…
Blepharoptosis repair
Ptosis repair raises an upper eyelid whose margin sits too low, either by reattaching and advancing the levator tendon through a skin incision or by shortening Müller's muscle from inside the lid,. Acquired ptosis is…
Upneeq and nonsurgical ptosis treatment
Oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution 0.1%, sold as Upneeq, is an eyedrop that raises a drooping upper eyelid for hours at a time by contracting Müller's muscle, and is the only drug the FDA has approved for…
Congenital ptosis
Congenital ptosis is a drooping upper eyelid present from birth, most often from a levator muscle that formed with fewer muscle fibers and more fibrous and fatty tissue than normal. It occurs alone or as part of a…
Droopy eyelids and ptosis research by topic
PubMed papers tagged by topic, newest first on each topic page.
Ptosis repair
Ptosis repair raises a drooping upper eyelid by shortening or reattaching the levator muscle that lifts it.
Congenital ptosis
Congenital ptosis is present from birth, from a levator muscle that did not form normally, and is repaired in childhood if it blocks vision.
Muller muscle resection
Muller muscle resection raises a mildly drooping lid by shortening the small muscle behind the levator.
Frontalis sling
A frontalis sling connects the eyelid to the forehead muscle so the brow lifts the lid, used when the levator does not work.
Nonsurgical ptosis treatment
Oxymetazoline and similar eye drops raise a mildly drooping lid for hours by stimulating the Muller muscle without surgery.