Eye plastic surgery should be performed by ophthalmologists trained in the anatomy and function of the eye and disease processes related to the eye.

Ocuplastic surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center repair the eye after it is damaged by disease or trauma. Sometimes they assist plastic surgeons with complications that arise during surgery performed by non-ophthalmic plastic surgeons, or they provide elective plastic surgery for the eye and area around the eye.

Specialists in UT Southwestern’s Ocuplastics Program use the latest diagnostic and treatment techniques and perform hundreds of surgeries each year, including:

• Aesthetic surgeries for problems that may or may not affect the function of the eyes;
• Botox treatment for functional (blepharospasm) and cosmetic conditions;
• Ectropion repairs for lower eyelid margins and lashes that sag or turn outward;
• Entropion repairs for eyelid margins that turn inward;
• Enucleation, which is removal of the eye and reconstruction after removal;
• Ptosis, or repairs drooping of the upper eyelid;
• Surgery for eye protrusion, a correction sometimes needed with Grave’s disease; and
• Upper eyelid blepharoplasty (eye lift).

Patients in UT Southwestern’s clinical trials program receive therapies years before they become available to the public. Patients should ask their doctor if they are candidates for some of these groundbreaking therapies.