Kim, Kenneth

One of the important ways to improve swelling and the overall recovery process after Asian eyelid surgery is to minimize tissue burning. Tissue burning can happen during double eyelid surgery because of bleeding. Bleeding occurs during double eyelid surgery because the plastic surgeon has to initially cut the skin with a scalpel or knife. Often, … Read More

Patients with pre-existing small or low double eyelid fold often wonder what the surgeon will do with the low double eyelid fold or crease. Unlike a high double eyelid fold or crease in Asian eyelid, a small or low double eyelid fold can easily be converted to a higher double eyelid fold or crease. The higher double … Read More

Patients ask how long the recovery process will be after surgery. Immediately after surgery, the patient will experience some swelling but will not have issues with vision (sight) and thus can rest at home or at a hotel. The pain will be minimal and it can be resolved with Tylenol the day of double eyelid surgery or Asian eyelid surgery. The … Read More

Patients are concerned about anesthesia when it comes to Asian eyelid surgery or double eyelid surgery. There are three types of anesthesia that can be used in Asian eyelid surgery or double eyelid surgery. One is general anesthesia. The second is intravenous sedation (IV sedation) anesthesia. The third is local anesthesia. In general anesthesia, the patient is intubated and the … Read More

Patients with significant excess upper eyelid skin hooding have few choices. One is to remove upper eyelid skin from the double eyelid fold line. However, the downside of this method is that the heavy eyelid brow skin and the brow is brought down. This creates a puffy Asian eyelid or double eyelid. A natural looking … Read More

Many people who desire Asian eyelid surgery or double eyelid surgery wish to have eyelash eversion. Eversion means that the eyelashes are flipped upward so that the lashes will not insert into the eyes. Many Asian eyelids have eyelashes that invert. If this situation is severe, then the eyelashes will insert into the eyes and irritate the … Read More

There are two types of Asian eyelids. Those with a double eyelid fold and those with only monolids (no double eyelid folds or crease). In Asian eyelid surgery, the first thing to decide whether there are excess skin hooding or not. If there is excess skin hooding, then it is obvious that the excess skin hooding has to … Read More

In performing Asian eyelid surgery, one of the anatomic components that need to be evaluated is the thickness of the skin. Within the Asian eyelid skin, there are thin skin region, a medium thickness skin region, and a thick skin region. When a double eyelid fold is made in an Asian eyelid, the fold needs to … Read More

Non-Asians have a naturally appearing high double eyelid fold. It is also known as an outfold double eyelid. An outfold or a high fold occurs in non-Asians because they do not have an epicanthal fold. An epicanthal fold has two distinct features that hinder an outfold. One is an excess skin at the inner corner … Read More