- What is Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery?

The eyes are the key members of visual sense; in the mean time, there are other major parts which play an important role in keeping and protecting eyes. These members include eyelids, glands lachrymal (tear exit), fornix, the bones of the orbit, the orbit and surrounding soft tissue.  Accidents, infections, tumors, congenital malformations and aging can cause some disorders in these members.

Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery field’s main concern is to correct these kinds of disorders, to restore the damages and beautify them right after it identifies eye’s members and their mutual interaction with each other, and inserts delicate and complex eye surgery techniques with reconstructive methods.

- Who Is an Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon?

Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgeons are those doctors who pass a four-year expertise period to be enough experienced to identify, treat and operate complex and delicate eye diseases; moreover, they spend one and a half year special technical term on getting deep understanding and skills in eyelids, face, orbit and lacrimal gland surgeries .