Dr. Stephen Winkler, MD

Training and board certification

Source: about/doctors/stephen-winkler

• His ASOPRS fellowship thesis covered oculofacial anthrax and reconstruction following these infections.
• The practice's shared doctors-page statement describes both Drs. Winkler as "board certified physicians"; the pages checked do not name the specific certifying board.

Eyelid surgery work

Procedure pages describe the practice's cosmetic and reconstructive services generally rather than Dr. Winkler individually.

• Upper blepharoplasty. Removes excess skin and fat of the upper eyelid, with crease rearrangement as needed; outpatient with twilight sedation and local anesthetic; incision hidden in the eyelid crease, closed with sutures or skin glue (upper-eyelid-blepharoplasty).
• Lower blepharoplasty. Removes or repositions fat and/or removes excess skin; distinguishes true eyelid bags from festoons (fluid pockets above the cheekbone); incision usually inside the eyelid (no visible scar) or below the lash line if external; fractional CO2 laser can be added for skin tightening (lower-eyelid-blepharoplasty).
• Ptosis repair. Tightens the eyelid-opening muscle with a stitch placed via an eyelid-crease incision, closed with sutures or skin glue (drooping-upper-eyelids).
• Brow lift. Endoscopic forehead lift using two (men) or three (women) small hairline incisions plus a temple incision of about 4.5-5 cm; tendons released and brow repositioned, secured with dissolvable anchors that typically dissolve over 9-12 months (brow-lifting).
• Entropion, ectropion and retraction repair. Surgical repositioning of the eyelid margin for inward-turning (entropion), outward-turning (ectropion) or retracted eyelids, outpatient with twilight sedation and local anesthetic (eyelid-malposition).
• Trichiasis treatment. Lash pulling (repeated roughly every 3 months), or more permanent lash-follicle destruction via laser, cryotherapy, radiofrequency, or surgery (trichiasis).

Gallery (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-30, 76 images) is shared across the practice's surgeons and shows labeled cases: blepharoplasty of the upper and/or lower eyelids, brow pexy, lacrimal gland tuck, CO2 laser combined with blepharoplasty, endoscopic forehead lift, ptosis repair (including combined with blepharoplasty), and thyroid eye disease retraction repair (before-and-after).

Other procedures

Eyelid lesion and tumor removal/reconstruction, orbital tumor surgery, orbital and facial fracture repair, evisceration/enucleation/exenteration, tearing and blocked tear duct surgery, thyroid eye disease (Graves' ophthalmopathy) management, pediatric oculoplastics, and UltraClear laser resurfacing and skin tightening (services).

Insurance and cost

The practice lists dozens of accepted commercial, Medicare and Medicaid managed-care plans (including AARP/UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, BCBS Illinois, Cigna, Humana, Molina Medicaid, Railroad Medicare and others) and notes benefits vary; it also offers financing (insurance-and-billing). No procedure prices are published.

Practice

Source: locations. No social media links found on the pages checked.