Is there any difference in treating older patients as opposed to treating a younger patient for Ptosis?

Doctor's Answer

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Dr Samuel Ho

Plastic Surgeon

It starts from the beginning, the older patients have a high chance of having medical problems, so we gotta make sure that they are medically healthy and are not on certain medications or blood thinners, so you want to clear that out.

The second thing is older patients tend to have more looser skin and are likely to have to live with this droopy eyelid for a long period of time that plays a role in recovery. Which means that let us say in a younger patient versus an older patient, the older patient has to remove more skin and I may have to do a lot more tightening, therefore, the recovery is expected to be longer. So, I do see that in my comparison that the older patients take longer for the swelling to come down in recovery. It is not something unexpected.

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