Featured Book & Review: Surgery Pretest Self Assessment and Review 13th Edition

– We thought we’d feature this book as it is time to take tests or prepare for them. This time we are featuring the recently updated Surgery Pretest Self-assessment and Review, Thirteenth edition (PreTest Clinical Medicine) by Lillian Kao and … Continue reading

Failed Congenital Ptosis Surgery

Jean’s story in this case describes her growing up with Ptosis and having a number of surgeries to correct the problem. Seems like most of them have mostly failed but perhaps you can learn something more from her experiences. Many … Continue reading

Interview with Harold G. Scheie about ptosis

We found this while digging for more ptosis information and reading material for all of you. During this particular interview with Harold G. Scheie, he responds about his work with ptosis and sometimes dealing with upset mothers that expected better … Continue reading

Ptosis Surgery Video Blepharoplasty

Ptosis surgery, also known as blepharoplasty performed by Dr. John Martin. This video is about 12 minutes long and as with most eyelid surgery videos, it is graphic. He shows different techniques used. Dr. Martin also demonstrates the use of … Continue reading

Before and After Blepharoplasty to correct Ptosis

Young girl shows you in a slideshow, the pictures before she underwent blepharoplasty to correct ptosis. The slideshow shows you the pictures after the surgery as well and throughout her recovery. In the comments she explains that for sometime she … Continue reading

My ptosis repair surgery failed…I think.

As with any surgery, Ptosis repair surgery can sometimes fail. Such is the case of this person that posted a few years back. There are three pages on discussion about the surgery. Many people have had less than excellent results … Continue reading

Double Eyelid Surgery to Change from Monolid

This is a video about having double eyelid surgery to correct or change what is often called monolid. While this is not a ptosis related surgery, it is a narration about eyelid surgery. In this case it seems that the … Continue reading