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Manchester Royal Eye Hospital has now moved from its old site into its brand new, impressive, state of the art facility adjacent to Manchester Royal Infirmary and the new Manchester Childrens’ Hospital. It also has its own separate dedicated private patients ward. Most major private operations (e.g. surgery requiring general anaesthesia on a day case basis or with a 1-2 night stay in hospital) for self pay patients can be offered at a much lower price than that which is charged by other local private hospitals. Typical operations undertaken in the new facility are: cataract surgery, orbital decompression for thyroid eye disease, enucleation and orbital implant surgery for a blind unsightly eye, cosmetic eyelid surgery or brow lift surgery, midface lift surgery, watering eye surgery (DCR), ptosis surgery, eyelid reconstruction surgery, orbital and eyelid tumour surgery and Coleman fat injection surgery. For details contact us at enquiries@faceandeye.co.uk where initial consultations can be offered (except for patients under the age of 18 who can be seen at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital on thursday evenings)

Lower lid blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid surgery, eye bag removal) can be combined with Coleman fat injections which can help to camouflage the outer tear trough defects when these cannot be adequately managed by fat repositioning alone.

The fat is harvested from the outer buttock area or thigh via a tiny incision which is closed with a singe stitch. The fat is spun down in a centrifuge to separate the cells from blood and local anaesthetic solution. The fat cells are then injected with a fine blunt cannula into the outer aspects of the eyelids at the completion of the blepharoplasty. This can be done under “twilight anaesthesia” on a day case basis.