Blepharoplasty – Eyelid Surgery
January 27th, 2012
Blepharoplasty, or eyelid surgery – a surgical procedure in the zone of eyelids, which is aimed to remove excess skin and fatty hernia in the upper or reduced eyelids. The purpose of this procedure is to eliminate the disadvantages of both hereditary and age. It may affect only the top two or bottom two eyelids, or at the same time all four eyelids.
Blepharoplasty can be performed separately or combined with another procedure in the zone of the face (frontal, temporal, cervix skin lifting). Eyelid surgery can also be combined with medical and surgical therapy (various peels, derma abrasion).
With blepharoplasty can eliminate signs of aging, particularly manifested in the eyelids, and to change the tired expression of eyes. The most common defects of the eyelids are the following:
Serious event the upper eyelid, with a surplus of skin, forming a more or less prominent fold;
Sagging and aging of reduced eyelid;
Protrusion of the “fat” in the upper and reduced eyelids, a well known as “fatty bags below eyelids.” Fatty hernia, which leads to the bags below the eyes of the reduced eyelids, as well as excess skin and puffiness of upper eyelids;
Numerous horizontal wrinkles due to stretching of the skin;
Inconvenience in applying Make-up and eye fatigue – excess skin of upper eyelids interferes with normal look, which is usually compounded by the evening.
Surgery aims to correct these imperfections by getting rid of the skin and muscle surplus body fat, Whilst not triggering changes to the basic features of age.
It should be famous that other issues arising in the eyelids cannot be solved with classical blepharoplasty and require more sophisticated gear and additional eyelid surgery. For example, sagging eyelid skin is often compounded by the displacement of excess tissue below the brow line of the eyebrows. In this case, the patient to accomplish a positive cosmetic effect you want to eliminate not only the excess skin of upper eyelids, but also raise the eyebrow line. The best effect in this case gives an upper blepharoplasty age simultaneously with the endoscope brow lift. because of surgery, the surgeon straightens the skin over the upper eyelid, removes the excess, raises eyebrows overhanging eyes and smooths the skin of his forehead. Blepharoplasty is also not eliminate the wrinkles among the eyebrows, “crows feet” around the eyes, circles, sunken eyes, a sad look in the “skew” the eyes, and small defects on the surface of the skin (scars, spots).
This eyelid surgery is widely practiced by men and women after age forty. From time to time blepharoplasty done before, if the imperfections are hereditary and not related to age-related changes, such as “fatty bags”.
Before the eyelid surgery
Before the test eye and eyelid among the patient and the specialist is a conversation in which it appears possible presence of anomalies, leading to a complication of surgery. It is often necessary to carry out ophthalmologic examination, which allows identifying possible ocular pathology.
So, if you want to look younger and you want to cut several many years from you age, than you have to apply for eyelid surgery, it will help you reach desired results.