Ophthalmic Plastic / Orbital / Reconstructive Surgery Service

Ophthalmic Plastic, Orbital & Reconstructive Surgery deals primarily with diseases involving tissues surrounding the eyeball, but which can also affect the appearance or function of the eye. It includes diseases of the eyelids, the lacrimal system (tear production and drainage), the orbit (the nerves, muscles, and blood vessels in the bony cavity surrounding the eye) and the facial areas adjacent tot the eye. Ophthalmic plastic surgeons are board certified ophthalmologists who have completed several years of additional, highly specialized training in plastic surgery.

Who Does It Strike?

Conditions interfering with properly functioning eyelids, tear production, and optic muscles can be the result of birth defects, injury, infection, or cancers, and thus effect a wide range of potential patients.

Some of conditions we treat:

• Aesthetic surgery of the periorbital area including eyelids, brows & midface
• Droopy eyelids (ptosis)
• Eyelid turning in or out (entropion or ectropion)
• Graves Disease (thyroid eye disease)
  • Orbital decompression (to push the eyes back in to the socket)
  • Lid recession surgery (to lower the eyelids)
• Cancer of the tissue surrounding or behind the eye
  • Excision of cancers
  • Reconstruction after removal of cancer
• Reconstruction of the orbit and the area surrounding the eye after trauma
• Surgery of the tear drainage system

Faculty

Eli L. Chang, MD
Nicolas Uzcategui, MD