ESSENTIAL EXPERTISE / PERFORMING OPERATIONS / TREATMENTS:
Treatment of diseases of the eyelids, orbits (eye sockets) and tear ducts
- Eyelid surgery:
- Ptosis operations: “levator surgery” or “brow suspension” for congenital and age-related changes of the eyelid elevator muscle
- Tumour surgery: removal of benign and malignant changes of the eyelids and orbits
- Reconstructive eyelid and orbital surgery, for the functional and cosmetic restoration of eyelid defects after tumour surgery or after injuries
- Reconstructive surgery of the mucosal surface of the eye
- Correction of acquired eyelid malpositions (entropion, ectropion)
- Reconstructive surgery after facial nerve palsy (facial nerve paralysis)
- Aesthetic eyelid surgery
- Upper and lower eyelid blepharoplasty
- Brow lift
- Paediatric – ophthalmological interventions in children (ptosis operations, dermoidectomy, treatment of haemangiomas)
- Use of botulinum toxin for blepharospasm
- Tear duct surgery:
- Therapy of connatal tear duct obstructions
- Reconstructive lacrimal surgery for mechanical and functional stenoses of the tear ducts (dacryocystorhinostomy, intubation of the lacrimal ducts)
- Correction of missing or too-narrow lacrimal puncta