Canthoplasty tightens or repositions the outer corner of the eye, and it has no published national average. Read on 2026-09-11, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons has no canthoplasty page among the cosmetic procedures it publishes costs for. That is consistent with how the operation is actually used: it is most often a component of lower eyelid surgery rather than a standalone procedure, and the published figure that does exist covers the operation it is usually part of, a lower blepharoplasty at $3,876 in surgeon fees.
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It is usually a step inside a larger operation
A lower blepharoplasty that removes skin or repositions fat can leave the lid margin needing support, and tightening the outer corner is how that support is provided. Done that way canthoplasty is not separately quoted at all, it is part of the technique the surgeon chose for your lower lids. That is why asking for a canthoplasty price in isolation often produces a vague answer: the practice is being asked to price a step rather than an operation, and the figure it can give you meaningfully is for the lower lid surgery as a whole.
The benchmark that does exist, and its limits
ASPS publishes $3,876 for a lower blepharoplasty and $3,359 for an upper, both surgeon fees excluding anesthesia, operating room facilities and other related expenses. If your canthoplasty is part of lower lid surgery, the lower figure is the right benchmark to read a quote against. If it is genuinely being done alone, for instance to correct lid position after previous surgery or injury, there is no published figure at all and the quote is unbenchmarked. Those two situations are very different and it is worth establishing which you are in.
Why the type of procedure is the thing that moves the fee
ASPS names three drivers of a surgeon's fee for cosmetic eyelid surgery: experience, the type of procedure used, and geographic office location. Canthoplasty sits squarely in the second. There are several techniques for supporting the outer corner, they differ in how much is done and how durable the result is, and the choice is made on examination. ASPS also states that most health insurance does not cover cosmetic surgery, naming one eyelid exception, surgery to remove redundant skin covering the eyelashes, which is an upper lid finding. This record prices the operations; it does not tell anybody which one they need.
Questions people ask about canthoplasty cost
How much does a canthoplasty cost?
No national average is published. ASPS has no canthoplasty cost page. Where it forms part of lower eyelid surgery, the published benchmark is a lower blepharoplasty at $3,876 in surgeon fees.
Is canthoplasty done on its own?
Not usually. It is most often a component of lower lid surgery, providing support to the lid margin, which is why practices tend to quote the lower blepharoplasty rather than the step.
Why is there no published figure?
ASPS publishes averages for the cosmetic operations it tracks. A technique used inside another operation does not appear as its own procedure in that series.
Would insurance ever pay for it?
ASPS states most health insurance does not cover cosmetic surgery, and the one eyelid exception it names is surgery to eliminate redundant skin covering the eyelashes, which describes an upper lid obstructing vision.