Blepharoplasty

* Blepharoplasty is a cosmetic surgery to fix your sagging or baggy eyelids, which occurs as you get older. Sagging eyelids can make you look older, more tired, and sad. The sagging skin can also get in the way of your eyesight. Blepharoplasty may be done in a hospital or in your caregiver's office. During blepharoplasty, extra folds of skin or fat may be removed from your eyelids. At the same time, your caregiver may also fix a drooping eyelid (a condition called ptosis). He may also do other cosmetic surgeries, such as a face lift or eyebrow lift.

* You and your caregiver will decide on a plan and set goals for the surgery. Blepharoplasty may help you see better if you have extra skin blocking your eyesight. It may also make the skin around your eyes smoother and less fat. With blepharoplasty, you may look younger and feel better about your appearance.

Blepharoplasty

CARE AGREEMENT:

You have the right to help plan your care. To help with this plan, you must learn about your health condition and how it may be treated. You can then discuss treatment options with your caregivers. Work with them to decide what care may be used to treat you. You always have the right to refuse treatment.

RISKS:

* Your eyelids may become red and swollen for weeks or months. You may have blurry or double vision. You may also have problems shedding tears, which may cause your eyes to become too dry. The way your eyelids look after the surgery may not be what you expected. You may have unwanted changes in the shape and look of your eyelids. Your eyes may look round, unequal, or sunken. Visible scars may form from the cuts made during the surgery.

* Ptosis or webbing (folding of the upper eyelid skin near your nose) may occur. Your eyelids may not close all the way. You may get retrobulbar hematoma (bleeding or bruising inside your eyes), which may lead to blindness. Call your caregiver if you have questions about your surgery. If any of these problems occur or continue, you may need to have surgery again. People who have diabetes, a blood disorder, or other eye ailment are at increased risk of having problems. If you do not have blepharoplasty, the skin may block your eyesight. Your eyelids may also become more saggy, wrinkled, and fat.

When talking about someone´s appearance, the face is always the main focus and more specifically the eyes are the center of attentions, and this is why they should always be attractive. Alterations in this region are generally caused by facial aging, gravity, smoking, excessive exposure to sunlight, and stress. Through a simple operation (Blepharoplasty) we are able to improve the peri-orbital region and give a more natural and youthful look to patients.

The eyelids play an important role in protecting the eyes. They help distribute the tears over the surface of the eyes when they close. If the eyelids are not able to close completely, the eyes will be excessively dry because of evaporation of tears, and corneal problems may occur. Because of this, it is important that you look for a specialist to correct any problem in the peri-orbital region.
The procedure is known as a Blepharoplasty, a Plastic Surgery operation designed to correct aesthetic and functional problems in the eye region, such as muscular laxity, and excesses of skin and fat around the eyes.

The aspect of “tired eyes” may be due to a series of problems: loss of elasticity of the skin, the appearance of wrinkles, peri-orbital tissue ptosis, protrusion of fat pouches, aquired or growth deformities, traumatic causes or other diseases. Even young people may have a genetic tendency and present lax and ptosed tissues.
It is important to highlight that a Blepharoplasty is not indicated to get rid of “crow´s feet”, does not improve dark skin under the eyes, nor does it raise the eyebrows. In order to raise the eyebrows, a brow-lift procedure may be associated with the blepharoplasty. Botulinum toxin serves as an adjunct in some cases.
For people who have one or more of the following conditions, independing of age, certainly will benefit from this surgery:
- Excess skin that may difficult vision
- Tired look due to fat pouches on both superior and inferior eyelids
- Excess skin and fine wrinkles over the inferior eyelids
- Laxity in the inferior eyelid causing the white part of the eyes to show.

A blepharoplasty is indicated to treat the problems mentioned above, but in many cases an association with other procedures may bring even more benefit. Peeling to improve the fine wrinkles around the eyes, brow-lift in order to better position the brows and eliminate pseudo-excess eyelid skin, as well as other procedures. Please contact us so that we can evaluate your individual case and plan the best operation for the optimal result.