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Oculoplastics, Orbit, and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic

The Oculoplastic Surgery clinic offers evaluation and surgery for children and adults who have eyelid or eye brow abnormalities due to genetics, aging, disease, trauma, or previous surgery.

The Oculoplastics/Orbital Clinic Provides:

  • A variety of cosmetic plastic surgery procedures including
    • Blepharoplasty (lid lifts) 
    • Botox treatments
  • Examinations, diagnosis, and treatment of
    • Disorders, anomaliles, and injuries
      • Eyelids
      • Tear ducts
      • The orbit (bony structure around the eye)
  • Pre-operative and post-operative evaluation
  • Surgical management of oculoplastic/orbital problems

Conditions Treated:

  • Conditions requiring enucleation
  • Eyelid and Orbit Injuries
  • Eyelid Abnormalities:
    • Ectropion (i.e. the turning out of the lower lid)
    • Entropion (i.e. the turning in of the lower lid)
    • Graves' Disease
    • Ptosis 
    • Thyroid Eye Disease
  • Involuntary Eyelid Blinking

Treatments and Services:

  • Cosmetic plastic surgery of the brows and orbital area
    • Blepharoplasty
    • Botox injections
  • Eye removal
    • Enucleation
    • Evisceration
    • Exenteration 
  • Eyelid surgery including:
    • Blepharoplasty
      • "lid lift"
      • plastic surgery of the eyelids to remove excessive skin or subcutaneous fat
    • Canthal resection
    • Canthectomy
    • Canthoplasty
    • Ectropion
    • Entropion
    • Ptosis repair/correction
    • Removal of eyelid tumors
      • examples: basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma
    • Tarsorrhaphy
  • Lacrimal apparatus surgery including:
    • DCR (Dacryocystorhinostomy) 
    • Orbital Reconstruction including:

    Care Team

    Physician, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences