article_snippet.sent: Raman Malhotra, a plastic surgeon at the facial palsy clinic at the Queen Victoria Hospital explained Raman Malhotra, a plastic surgeon at the facial palsy clinic at the Queen Victoria Hospital could put a special platinum chain into my eyelid which would weigh a special platinum chain down and help a special platinum chain close by a special platinum chain - I'd be able to open my left eye easily because the muscle controlling this wasn't affected.
article_snippet.sent: My eye was wide open as they injected anaesthetic into my eyelid and the skin around My eye, then made lots of tiny stitches into my eyelid to hold a special platinum chain in place.
article_snippet.sent: Five years ago, I would have recommended a gold implant - in the shape of a very thin bar - fitted under the eyelid to allow Lauren to close the lower lid.
article_snippet.sent: First, we anaesthetised the skin around Lauren's eye.
article_snippet.sent: I made an incision across the outside of Lauren eyelid, where an incision makes a natural crease, making sure not to cut through to the eyeball.
article_snippet.sent: I placed the links inside an incision, above the eyeball, stitching the chain in place from the outside of her eyelids in, before closing an incision.
article_snippet.sent: When the chain was in place, and the eye was open, the chain sat above the eyeball so the chain did not come into direct contact with that delicate part of the eye.
article_snippet.sent: However, the chain meant that the eyelid was sufficiently heavy to fall, thanks to gravity.