Can I Get My Cat Eye Surgery Partially Reversed?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am distressed by the outcome of my surgery, I just had this midface and temporal lift in Turkey on January 23rd 2025, it’s been 3 weeks last saturday. I find the temporal lift (canthis and eyebrows) too high, too pulled up, I would like to lower it and have a natural look that’s closer to how I was before but without the negative canthal tilt I had. I thought I explained my doctor that i just wanted a subtle lift but his hand is strong because the fox eyes is the fashion over there and that’s what he does more I guess. He says I over worry and that it will come down with time but I feel disfigured, I cant heal 2 months hidding I have a lot to do. I had a negative canthal tilt before, I wanted to elevate my outter corner of my eyes a little bit but, it’s over done to my taste, I feel too much tension and my eyes are blurry I can’t read comfortably cellphone or computer, even with my reading glasses I see blurry, so it strains my eyes because it’s more effort I have provided. I attached picture of me before and after surgery. He used the endoscopic method. his incisions are 1 cm behind the hairlines on each side, And for the mid face lift he went intra oral to lift the tissues and fat pad from the bone and pushed them up. Please help!

A: While 3 weeks may seem like an eternity it is not when it comes to any procedure on which some form of lifting of the face is performed. The effects of gravity and tissue relaxation will make the result less lifted as it heals so what you see now is not the final result.

The only reason to intervene now to take it down is if the goal is to try and return to what you were before as much as possible. Otherwise I wold wait it out and see how it settles out by 2 to 3 months after the surgery.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon