Eyelid Surgery - Surgical treatments

Blepharoplasty (Cosmetic eyelid surgery)

Upper and lower eyelid surgery for excess overhanging upper eyelid skin, hooded eyes or baggy eyelids (eyelid bags or eyebags)

Eyebrow lifts

Endoscopic, direc, temporal, internal, mid-forehead, pretrichial or coronal eyebrow lifts. This includes the latest techniques using Endotine implants

Upper eyelid/lower eyelid entropion correction

Eyelids turning inwards against the eye

Lower eyelid ectropion correction

Eyelids turning away from the eye

Watering eyes

Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) and Lester Jones tubes including endoscopic surgery

Socket problems

Patients with artificial eyes and orbital implant problems

Eyelid reconstructive surgery

Congenital disorders or following trauma/tumour excision

Chalazion or meibomian cysts

Common lumps and bumps affecting the eyelids

Blepharitis

A very common inflammatory condition affecting the margins of the eyelids

Thyroid eye disease

Patients with protrusive eyes associated with a disorder of the thyroid gland

"Twilight" anaesthesia

Please note that although some minor surgical treatments can be performed under local anaesthesia alone, local anaesthesia with safe, conscious intravenous sedation given by a very experienced and skilled consultant anaesthetist (commonly referred to as “twilight anaesthesia”) is also available where requested. This form of anaesthesia is extremely popular with our patients and the effects are reversed very quickly. It enables local anaesthetic injections to be given painlessly with little recollection of the surgery, and helps to keep patients calm, relaxed and comfortable, and it also helps to prevent rises in blood pressure thereby minimizing bleeding and bruising.

Any patients requiring general anaesthesia or who are unsuitable for surgery at our day case facility will be treated by our surgeons in a local private hospital (the Spire Manchester Hospital in Whalley Range, Manchester, The Spire Regency Hospital in Macclesfield Cheshire, The Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, Cheshire, or the brand new Private Wing of Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (The Manchester Centre for Vision).