Orbital decompression effect on PFL?

[MouthBreathingRuinedMe]

Hello,

I have decent IPD and PFL, my only problem is that my eyes are not deepset enough thus the support around my orbits is medicore.
Now I thought about getting orbital decompression as It would improve the support all around, but now there is only one question left.

Would orbital decompression affect my PFL?

As I have quite wide IPD , any further reduction of PFL would make eyes look a lot worse.

Thanks in advance guys!

[fulcanelli]

What do the abbreviations mean?

[MouthBreathingRuinedMe]

IPD = interpupillary distance = eye distance
PFL = Palpebral fissure length = horizontal eye length

[kavan]

I think it would tend to decrease the
the PFL.  Here's why: With aging the eyeballs sink more into the sockets because the sockets become more spacious and with that the PFL decreases.  The eyes look SMALLER.   Orbital decompression is best for people with BUG EYES. It isn't something for people who's eyes are 'not deep set enough'.

[lookism]

orbital decompression makes sense if your eyes are not only bulging relative to the infraorbital rims but also to the supraorbital rims (browridge)

saw a lot of guys who had poor under eye support and but a strong browridge (looked a bit like the frankensteinmonster) - those people suffer from midface deficiency and wouldnt profit from orbital decompression

[MouthBreathingRuinedMe]

I think it would tend to decrease the
the PFL.  Here's why: With aging the eyeballs sink more into the sockets because the sockets become more spacious and with that the PFL decreases.  The eyes look SMALLER.   Orbital decompression is best for people with BUG EYES. It isn't something for people who's eyes are 'not deep set enough'.

Do they really get deeper set with age though?

I always thought the orbit just becomes more spacious in terms of vertical height but not horizontally deeper, am I wrong?

Do the eyes not become smaller because of the skin sagging which comes with aging?

[kavan]

Do they really get deeper set with age though?

I always thought the orbit just becomes more spacious in terms of vertical height but not horizontally deeper, am I wrong?

Do the eyes not become smaller because of the skin sagging which comes with aging?

They can recede into the orbit more with age because with aging/bone loss the orbit HOLE has more internal space. When a HOLE gets BIGGER, the deeper something can fall into it. That is the salient concept.

If you had ever observed that older people who get blephs and other surgeries to address sagging skin have smaller eyes than they had in youth it would have become more intuitively obvious whether or not sagging skin was key culprit at play.