Meet Dr. Mark Garbutt
A Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with over 30 years of experience, Dr. Garbutt is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College. He received his MD from the University of California, San Francisco Medical School.
The Visionary Behind the Bright Eyes MD Procedure
Following Ophthalmology Residency at the prestigious Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA and becoming Board Certified in Eye Surgery, Dr. Garbutt continued his surgical training at Jules Stein with a Fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, holding a Faculty position.
The Fellowship covered UCLA Hospital, LA Veterans Hospital, Harbor County Hospital, and San Fernando Valley Hospital.
Why I developed the Bright Eyes MD Procedure
As a Board Certified Eye Surgeon as well as a UCLA Fellowship trained Orbito-Facial Plastic Surgeon, I have the exact training needed to do this more complex surgery, which is really an orbit based surgery as opposed to just an eyelid surgery. After 10 years of Eye Plastic Surgery Practice I began to notice that patients on whom I had performed lower lid bag removal early in my practice had recurrence of their bags despite no significant weight gain.
They also had deeper set, smaller looking eyes, significantly more upper lid depression, and brow droop.
I concluded that this was due to further displacement of orbital fat from below the eye into the lower lid complex.
I determined to secure this displaced fat back underneath the eye. This lifted and brought forward the eyes, the upper lids, and the brows, returning them to their natural, youthful positions.
Also, I saw the necessity of tightening the entire lower lid and upper cheek tissues, by performing a deep plane midface lift through tiny incisions just above the outer eyelid corners, over the lateral orbital rims.
This resulted in eliminating lower lid skin folds and fluid accumulation, with no lower lid skin incisions.
The combination of securing displaced orbital fat back under the eyes, and tightening the entire lower lid / upper cheek tissues, is the Bright Eyes MD Procedure.
Unique to this procedure is the literal moving of the eyes up and forwards, making them look larger and more prominent, filling the upper lids without resorting to filler or fat injection, lifting both nasal and lateral brows from underneath without skin incisions, and tightening and lifting the lower lids and upper cheeks, resolving folds and fluid, without the need for lower lid skin incisions.
How I’m Different From Other Plastic Surgeons
Although I have demonstrated and lectured on the Bright Eyes MD procedure to Plastic Surgeons, I find that they might try it once, and then abandon it as being too time-consuming and difficult. This is true even of Eye Plastic Surgeons I know in Southern California. As far as I know, I am the only surgeon in the US who does this procedure on a routine basis.
Unfortunately, most Plastic Surgeons don’t realize that the aging process makes the eyes sink down and back in the eye sockets, making them look small and beady.
Consequently, they do not perceive that small, deep-set eyes are a cosmetic problem, and so do not seek to correct it.
The conventional eyelid they perform does not stop or reverse the eye aging process, and if anything makes it worse over time. My goal is to set a new standard in cosmetic eyelid surgery.
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