Can Low Lids Retraction After Eye Lids Plastic Surgery Contribute to MGD ?

[Dog2012]

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Can Low Lids Retraction After Eye Lids Plastic Surgery Contribute to MGD ?

Are you aware of any data indicating that ocular surface inflammation (as a result of queous tear deficiency) directly causes MGD? My concern is that lack of tears. i have a low lids retraction ..big opening after eye lids plastic surgery..corneal exposure, contributing to dry eyes that i believe produce inflammation … and in return contribute to MGD. Meibomian gland dysfunction Vladae,

[Rebecca Petris]

Interesting question. I don't believe this has been studied much*.

But it wouldn't surprise me at all if there were a connection of some kind. I hear from people all the time who have dry eye symptoms for the first time after blepharoplasty - some of them have significant lagophthalmos but others relatively slight and doesn't seem to explain the severity of their symptoms on its own.

I think of blepharoplasty as being like many other things which can trigger a cascade of events that affect the MGs and (if no timely, appropriate intervention) the whole tear system.

*The only possibly relevant studies I found (of course there may be more - I searched on blepharoplasty complications, blepharoplasty and blepharitis, blepharoplasty and meibomian):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18176227 lists blepharitis as a possible complication of blepharoplasty
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7338010 does not say so in the abstract but its wording was suggestive - might be something in the full study or might be worth contacting the authors if you want to know more.

p.s. I moved this to Patients & Pros in case there happen to be any dr. members who want to chime in.

[Dog2012]

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