Reconstructive Services

Ouloplastic surgeons at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins treat many conditions and perform reconstructive services in several convenient locations. These conditions include:

Abnormal tearing of the eye: tear duct blockage
Anophthalmic socket and other problems of the eye: eye cancer, pain or trauma requiring removal of the eye
Eyelid or facial squeezing disorders: blepharospasm, hemifacial spasm, Meige syndrome, aberrant regeneration
Eyelid disease: ptosis (droopy eyelids), dermatochalasis (sagging eyelid fat and skin), brow ptosis (droopy brows), ectropion, entropion, eyelid retraction, eyelid tumors
Facial, eyelid, or eye socket trauma: fractures and lacerations
Orbital disease: orbital tumors, Graves disease/thyroid eye disease, orbital inflammation/infection
Skin cancer: Basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, sebaceous cell carcinoma, melanoma, etc.
Trichiasis: abnormally growing or misdirected eyelashes