Editorial Standards

Three questions this page answers: where our numbers come from, what we mean by "not medical advice," and what happens once a reader flags something as wrong.

Sourcing the cost figures

Only two sources feed a price range on this site. The larger share comes from our own calculator model, tuned to typical US pricing for each combination of procedure scope, anesthesia, and surgeon tier, and it is labeled as our estimate rather than dressed up as a scraped or third-party figure. When a specific outside number gets used, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons' average surgeon fee data is the one that comes up most often, and its source and year sit right beside it in the text, not buried in a footnote. Random online polls do not make it into our ranges, and we do not accept pricing information from surgeons, clinics, or device makers in exchange for a mention.

What "not medical advice" means in practice

Naomi Foster writes the guides here, and her background is in healthcare cost reporting, not medicine; she holds no clinical license, and nothing she publishes should be read as a diagnosis or a recommendation for your specific case. Sections touching on risk, recovery, or candidacy are built from published clinical sources and summarized plainly, with the confidence level noted anywhere it is less than solid. Deciding whether to have surgery, and who performs it, stays between you and a board-certified plastic surgeon or oculoplastic surgeon.

How corrections work

Found a wrong number, a stale date, or a claim that does not hold up? Use the contact page. Naomi checks it against the original source first. If it holds, the affected page gets updated along with its "last updated" date, and for anything touching a cost figure or a medical claim, we add a note at the bottom of the guide describing what changed. Errors get fixed openly, not quietly scrubbed.

Lines we do not cross