Meronk Blepharoplasty - Southern California
Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara

The "KISS" in KISS Blepharoplasty has nothing to do with those bite-size pieces of chocolate wrapped in foil, a tender meeting of the lips, or the heavy metal band from the seventies. It's a reference instead to a principle widely revered in science, technology, and business that states that simplicity of design should always be a goal, while nonessential complexity is best avoided.

Or, to say it more directly, "Keep it Simple, Stupid!"

As Albert Einstein once observed, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." In other words, while simplicity for the sake of simplicity alone is not the goal, unnecessarily complex solutions should be shunned.

But why? Is there something wrong with complexity?

No, there's nothing inherently wrong with complexity, just as long as it's really required. Think back to Rube Goldberg's cartoons of those wildly complicated "non-KISS" machines, ultimate examples of complexity created just for the heck of it.

So what does all of this have to do with blepharoplasty? Ask any experienced revision expert who provides care to patients unhappy with their results after cosmetic eyelid surgery.

While improper execution of an operation by the first surgeon is typically the primary cause of many mishaps, a not infrequent and major contributing factor is often poor judgment in the very selection of the procedure that was undertaken. Most surgeons like to think of themselves as practicing at the forefront of their specialties by offering only the latest and greatest. Despite increased invasiveness, surgical difficulty, and lack of a long-term track record, some new procedures become quickly touted as superior replacements for more reliable and less destructive techniques. A related form of misjudgment is simple overkill -- employing multiple procedures when a single procedure would work as well or even better. Antoine de Saint Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, noted that "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." In many cases, doing less is actually more, while doing more is not only superfluous but an invitation for trouble. Throwing everything but the kitchen sink at a common problem with a straightforward fix can result in delayed healing, an unnatural appearance, higher rates of both immediate and late-term complications, not to mention increased costs. While this may seem rather obvious, some surgeons act quite to the contrary. For instance . . .

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