How Can I Make My Eyes Look Closer?

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hello, As you can see my ipd is wide. Does Dr. Eppley perform some sort of z-plasty or medial canthoplasty? Where the tendons are reangled or made longer in any way? Is there any way to reduce or fraud the eye spacing? Also would a lateral canthoplasty be possible for me? My downturned eyes bother me.

A: I know of no soft tissue technique that will make the eyes look closer together. Soft tissue corner adjustments can be effective for making the eyes appear further apart but not closer together.

Conversely, soft tissue adjusgtments or lateral canthoplasties can effectively lift up the outer eye corners. Depending on the amount of movement needed a lowe eyelid space graft may also be needed for a sustained change.

Dr Barry Eppley

World Renowned Plastic Surgeon