Dr. Shah Vira is an eyelid and oculoplastics expert, board-certified in ophthalmology, and fellowship-trained in oculoplastics. She specializes in all facets of oculoplastic surgery including upper and lower blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), brow lifts, mid-face lifts, cosmetic injectables such as Botox Cosmetic, and Xeomin, and more. As an oculoplastic surgeon, Dr. Shah Vira is committed to giving every patient fantastic, natural, and lasting results.
What is your greatest achievement?
Professionally it has been creating a direct specialty care practice and bringing back the patient-physician relationship as it once was and how it should be.
What is the future of your field?
Medicine is constantly evolving. Surgery is constantly progressing. New developments are helping create minimal invasive techniques to improve different conditions where previously surgery was the only option.
What is the biggest misconception about your field?
You won't look like yourself. One of the most important pieces in a cosmetic procedure is keeping your look natural.
What are your most requested procedures?
Even before the Zoom Boom, upper eyelid surgery has been the most requested. The removal heaviness of droopy eyelid skin can make you feel refreshed and look younger.
What surgical advancements are you most excited about?
Minimally invasive surgical techniques and new medications (no surgery!) for droopy eyelids.
What are you best known for?
Personalized care, great communication with patients, and fantastic surgical results.
What is your most memorable patient reaction?
When I've been told I changed the way they see the world!
What sets your practice apart?
With a direct care practice, patients always communicate directly with me as the physician, whenever they call.
What do you love most about your profession?
Being able to make patients feel more confident and satisfied
What is your career-defining procedure?
Removing a tumor in the eye socket that was causing vision loss and restoring vision.
What new services are you excited to offer?
Minimally invasive surgery and the new FDA-approved eye drops for droopy eyelids.
