Category
Threshold Criteria
Blepharoplasty is the plastic surgery operation for correcting defects, deformities and disfigurations of the eyelids and aesthetically modifying the eye region of the face.
Eligibility
| LLR ICB will fund this procedure if one or more of the following criteria is met – Excess tissue or drooping of the upper eyelid causing functional visual impairment. Impairment of visual fields in the relaxed, non-compensated state. Evidence will be required that eyelids impinge on visual fields, reducing field by 40 degrees vertically OR – To repair defects predisposing to corneal or conjunctival irritation OR – Entropion or ectropion OR – Periorbital sequelae of thyroid or nerve palsy or trauma OR – Prosthesis problems in an anophthalmia socket OR – Painful symptoms of blepharospasm |
| ARP 15 Review Date: 2027 |


