Will A Custom Orbital Floor-Rim Implant Work for My Vertical Orbital Dystopia?

Q: Dr. Eppley, How much would I expect the cost to be for something like Custom Orbital Floor-Rim Implant in the Treatment of Aesthetic Vertical Orbital Dystopia, for my situation? My right eye would ideally look like the left once raised.

A:First of all I do not know your ‘situation’ when it comes to your eye and asymmetry as I have never seen any pictures of your problem. Secondly in the treatment of vertical orbital dystopia a custom implant made to raise up the eye and infraorbital rim pi is rarely the sole solution to the problem. It is a foundational part of the VOD surgery but it is almost always requires other soft tissue adjustments to be done around the eye, the eyelids and brow, as raising the eyeball alone will change the lids-eye relationship in an unfavorable way. And the eyelids and brow do not move upward because the eyeball is raised. Thus it is very rare that a custom orbital implant alone will satisfactorily address the problem.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon