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Eyelid Surgery

Eyelid surgery is designed to remove excess skin and fat from the lower and upper eyelids. Excessive skin and wrinkles of the eyelids are signs of aging, making the eyes look angry and tired. Eyelid surgery can correct drooping upper lids and puffy bags below.  

Sometimes fullness of the upper eyelid and bagginess of the lower eyelid could also be a familial trait unrelated to age; however, it won't remove crow's feet or other wrinkles, eliminate dark circles under their eyes or lift sagging eyebrows. Blepharoplasty can be done alone or in conjunction with other facial surgery procedures such as a facelift or browlift. Eyelid surgery can correct drooping upper lids that tend to sag with time and the puffy bags below the eyes. For upper eyelid surgery, the incision hidden in the skin fold, protruding orbital fat, and excessive skin is removed.  

Lower eyelid surgery can be approached in two ways. When fat is the only problem, they prefer an incision on the inside surface of the lower lid. Fat is then removed without disturbing the other structures. Otherwise, the incision is placed below the lash line and low lid wrinkles are then excised along with fat tissue. A modified technique can be used to raise the upper lid line higher and this enables better eye-shadow application.  

In a typical procedure, the surgeon makes incisions following the natural lines of their eyelids; in the creases of their upper lids, and just below the lashes in the lower lids. The incisions may extend into the crow's feet or laugh lines at the outer corners of their eyes. Working through these incisions, the surgeon separates the skin from underlying fatty tissue and muscle, removes excess fat, and often trims sagging skin and muscle. The incisions are then closed with very fine sutures. In this procedure the incision is made inside the lower eyelid, leaving no visible scar. It is usually performed on younger patients with thicker, more elastic skin.  

A few medical conditions make blepharoplasty more risky like thyroid problems such as hypothyroidism and Graves' disease, dry eye or lack of sufficient tears, high blood pressure or other circulatory disorders, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes and also detached retina or glaucoma .
 
 


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