How to open your eyes yourself

There is no way for you to control the corners of your eyes. The corners of your eyes are divided into the inner corner and the outer corner. For people with small eyes, they can open their canthuses to make their eyes bigger and brighter. This is a very professional treatment method. If you want to open your canthuses, you must go to a regular plastic surgery hospital for consultation, and through physical examinations, inquiries about medical history, etc., to determine whether it is suitable for you to open your canthuses. Let’s take a look at some of the steps involved in opening the eyes in a plastic surgery hospital.

How to open the canthus: the first step is cleaning

Before opening the eyes, the doctor will ask the patient to remove makeup, clean the face, put on surgical clothes and put on a surgical cap. During the canthoplasty process, the doctor will first use a cotton swab dipped in alcohol to clean the area around the eye and remove oil to prevent infection during and after the canthoplasty surgery.

How to open the canthus: the second step is to draw the line

The second step is for the doctor to draw the canthoplasty design line. The second step of the canthoplasty surgery requires the patient to open his eyes naturally and look straight ahead, to assist the doctor in determining the starting and ending points of the epicanthus. The canthoplasty schemes that are more commonly used in clinical practice include the "VY" suture method (the former is suitable for mild epicanthus), the "Z" shaping canthoplasty method and the four-flap method (the latter is suitable for all degrees of epicanthus). These design schemes can be specifically adjusted according to the patient's condition.

How to open the canthus: The third step is disinfection

Medical staff use special medical facial disinfectants to disinfect the entire face and clean it again to prevent unclean sebum and bacteria from contaminating the eye wound during canthoplasty surgery and causing infection.

How to open the canthus: the fourth step is to adjust

The surgeon slightly adjusted the inner canthus design line as the final canthoplasty design line in order to achieve the best canthoplasty effect and avoid excessive skin retraction after the canthoplasty surgery.

How to open the canthus: the sixth step is to make an incision

The doctor cuts the skin and orbicularis oculi muscle along the line designed before the operation, removes excess skin at the inner corner of the eye, opens the epicanthus blocking the inner corner of the eye, and enlarges the eye. At present, the double V operation technique is mostly used, which can not only make the opening very large and precise, but also hide the entrance in a clever way, so as to truly achieve the purpose of making the scar as invisible as possible after the canthoplasty surgery. It is worth mentioning that the incision method in this step will have a certain impact on the depth of the scar in the future. Generally, highly skilled doctors will use small vertical incisions to avoid the formation of obvious scars after opening the eyes. This is also a key step that tests the doctor's skills.

How to open the canthus: Step 7: Suture

The doctor asked the patient to open his eyes to see the correction effect of the epicanthus. After exchanging the positions of the paired triangular flaps, they were sutured in place. The more accurate the skin suture placement, the less noticeable the scar, so it is important to choose a professional doctor.