Patient L.N. N. (62 years old, residing in Dong Nai) underwent eyelid surgery at a beauty salon. After intervention, the patient's lower eyelids gradually showed signs of contracture, overturning, accompanied by pain, burning, continuous and prolonged discomfort. When returning to the surgery facility for examination, the patient learned that this facility had closed and was no longer operating.
The condition was prolonged, incurable, affecting the quality of life, the patient went to Thong Nhat Hospital for examination and treatment. When arriving at Thong Nhat Hospital, the patient was recorded to have severe lower eyelid dislocation on both sides, eyelids no longer close to the eyeball, accompanied by conjunctivitis.
Through examination and consultation between doctors of the Ophthalmology Department and the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery - Plastic Surgery, Thong Nhat Hospital, the post-operative scar shrinkage is the cause of lower eyelid deformity and affects the protective function of the eyeball surface. After assessing the injury condition, doctors performed surgery to release the shrinkled scar and skin graft to restore the lower eyelid.
Doctors choose to perform each eye, ensuring that the intervened eye needs to be closed and bandaged with gauze for a period of time to help stabilize the skin graft area, limiting impact on the surgical wound.
After the first eye recovered and the grafted area stabilized, the patient continued to have surgery on the remaining eye. BS.CKI Tran Minh Manh - Department of Maxillofacial Surgery - Plastic Surgery, Thong Nhat Hospital said that the patient's health was stable, the lower eyelids of both eyes were close to the eyeball, no longer overturned, tears were gone, and conjunctivitis was controlled.
Patients are monitored for the healing process of the graft and instructed on eye care after surgery. Doctors say that eyelid crease surgery is not simply a cosmetic complication. When the eyelids are not closed and do not close to the eyeball, the eye surface is easily dried, irritated and inflamed. If prolonged, patients may suffer from corneal damage, corneal ulcers, leaving scars and reducing vision.
When people need eyelid surgery or cosmetic intervention, they need to choose a licensed medical facility with doctors trained in the correct specialty and ensuring full surgery conditions. Performing surgery at facilities with insufficient professional capacity can cause long-term complications.
