Blepharoplasty - Cesmedic Plastic

Eyelid surgery (technically called blepharoplasty) is a procedure to remove fat - usually along with excess skin and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids. Eyelid surgery can correct drooping upper lids and puffy bags below your eyes - features that make you look older and more tired than you feel, and may even interfere with your vision.

Types of anesthesia
Eyelid surgery is usually performed under local anesthesia - which numbs the area around your eyes - along with oral or intravenous sedatives. In this case you'll asleep through the surgery.

The surgery
Blepharoplasty usually takes one to two hours, depending on the extent of the surgery. If you're having all four eyelids done, the surgeon will probably work on the upper lids first, then the lower ones.
In a typical procedure, the surgeon makes incisions following the natural lines of your eyelids; in the creases of your 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 your 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.

Post-operative
After 48 hours the points are moved away, replacing them for Steri-Strips™. A temporary edema may occur but disappear with ice compresses and anti-inflammatory. Ophthalmic tampons are not placed, you leave the clinic seeing normally.
You should be able to read or watch television after two or three days. However, you won't be able to wear contact lenses for about two weeks.
Most people feel ready to go out in public (and back to work) in a week to 10 days. By then, depending on your rate of healing and the doctor's instructions, you'll probably be able to wear makeup to hide the bruising that remains. You may be sensitive to sunlight, wind, and other irritants for several weeks, so you should wear sunglasses and a special sunblock made for eyelids when you go out.
After some weeks do not remain scars of the incisions that the surgeon performed in the eyelids.

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