Editorial Policy

Babyface sits on a join that is easy to get wrong: one person’s account of having her eyelids operated on, and the clinical facts an oculoplastic surgeon would put her name to. This page explains how the two are kept apart and then fitted back together, so you can judge how far to trust each part.

Who writes, and who signs it off

The articles are written by me, Selina Roth, an upper and lower blepharoplasty patient and the founder of this site, not a clinician. Everything that touches the medicine, how the upper crease incision differs from the lower approaches, what recovery involves, how dry eye and lid malposition happen and how often, when hooding counts as functional rather than cosmetic, is reviewed by Miss Priya Raman, Consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon (FRCOphth), before it is published. Where a page carries a reviewed date, that is the day a surgeon last checked it.

Experience on one side, clinical fact on the other

Lived experience and clinical guidance are not the same, and the pages keep them apart on purpose. When I describe my own bruising, the grit of the early weeks, or the morning the stitches came out, that is one pair of eyes and one recovery, and it is marked as personal. When a page states what a blepharoplasty does, who it suits, or what can go wrong, that is the reviewed clinical content. What happened to my eyes is not a forecast of what will happen to yours.

Figures, ranges, and where they come from

Numbers on this site, the recovery windows, how long an upper lift tends to last, complication rates such as the odds of a bleed behind the eye, are drawn from authoritative bodies and peer-reviewed oculoplastic and plastic-surgery literature, not from clinic marketing. We lean on the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the NHS, ISAPS, and the Cleveland Clinic, listed on the Resources page. Where the evidence gives a range, we write it as a range, for example 5 to 7 days for the stitches to come out, and we say so plainly when the research has not settled a question. We never round a range up into a promise.

Independence

Nobody pays to appear on this site. We take no payment to recommend a surgeon, a clinic, a country, or a product, and we run no affiliate links to cosmetic sellers. The Resources page points only to independent bodies, never to anyone selling surgery.

Getting things wrong, and fixing them

If something here is inaccurate, out of date, or simply unclear, I want to know. The Contact page reaches me. Genuine errors of fact are corrected quickly, and where a correction is material we update the page and its dates so the change is visible.

What this policy does not do

None of this makes the site medical advice, and a surgeon reviewing a page is not the same as a surgeon examining you. Please read the Medical Disclaimer alongside it.