He also popularized the double eyelid surgery or "Asian blepharoplasty" to “deorientalize” patients’ faces[1] while stationed in South Korea during the Korean War.
[2] He played football at Yale, studied medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1944 and interned in pediatric surgery at Boston Children's Hospital.
The Millard procedure rotates the tissue and creates a Z-shaped scar instead.
The "Z" shape gives the tissue more elasticity, resulting in greater flexibility and restoration of the Cupid's bow.
Millard had two sons,(Duke and Bond) a daughter (Meleney), and six grandchildren (Davey, Lindsey, Blake, Ryan, Jennifer, and Kelsey).