Most of us have woken up with a puffy eyelid at some point in our lives. Aside from being uncomfortable (and sometimes painful), it can also temporarily affect your vision. When that happens, you’ve ...

Of all the parts of the face, the area around the eyes is usually the first to betray a person’s age. Called the periorbital area, signs of aging like crow’s feet, loose skin, droopy upper lids, and ...

Question: I had an upper eyelid lift 10 years ago for baggy upper eyelids. I had a good result, but there was swelling under my eyes that looked like fluid bags and didn’t go away for a long time. Now ...

Over the years, an old friend, Michael Cater, MD, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Orange County, California, has shared numerous interesting cases, some from exotic places during his time in ...

An 8-month-old girl presented to the pediatric ophthalmology clinic with redness and swelling of the left upper eyelid. She had woken up the day before with the swelling, and it appeared to be worse ...

Calling all contact lens users: Do not panic. (Shuddering is fine.) Imagine going to the eye doctor because your upper eyelid is swollen and painful. The doctor tells you it’s a cyst and operates.

Eyelid surgery is one of the most common types of plastic surgery, but downtime is often a major concern for patients. Now a new device is showing promising signs to help speed up recovery by ...

When a U.K. woman went to the doctors with a swelling in her upper left eyelid, she didn’t expect the cause to date back to a contact lens she thought fell out 28 years before. An MRI scan of the ...

Imagine going to the eye doctor because your upper eyelid is swollen and painful. The doctor tells you it’s a cyst and operates. Inside the blister, the surgeon finds a contact lens: a rigid ...