How does Dr. Lam rejuvenate the area around the eyes?
The area around the eyes is perhaps one of the most important areas to rejuvenate. During a conversation and in normal social encounters, about 99% of the time is concentrated at looking at the other’s eyes. Traditional surgery has been only based upon cutting away tissue. Dr. Lam rarely performs removal of skin or fat alone. Using your old photographs, he can evaluate exactly what you used to look like so that his surgical strategy can match your identity and thereby preserve and enhance your identity rather than alter your appearance so that you no longer recognize yourself. Accordingly, Dr. Lam uses a combination approach to rejuvenate the periorbital area (the region around the eyes). For the upper eyelid that is hanging, he may remove a little extra skin if the eyelid appears to be drooping over the eyelid. Occasionally, he may perform a browlift if your old photographs show that your brow was higher than today. For the lower eyelid, he almost never makes an incision. There have b
