Blepharoplasty
Blepharoplasty is surgical reshaping of the eyelids. Through incisions on the upper or lower lids, a surgeon removes or repositions excess skin, muscle, and fat—covering procedures from incisional double-eyelid surgery to upper-lid laxity correction and under-eye bag removal. It is a true operation performed under anesthesia, with recovery measured in weeks rather than days.
- Facial surgery
- Bruising and swelling for 2–3 weeks
- Surgical
Overview
Blepharoplasty divides into upper- and lower-eyelid procedures. Upper-lid surgery includes creating or defining a crease through an incision—the incisional double-eyelid operation—and removing lax skin that hoods the eye with age, weighs on the lashes, or narrows the upper field of vision. Lower-lid surgery mainly addresses under-eye bags: bulging orbital fat can be removed or repositioned through an incision just below the lash line or hidden inside the eyelid, with the exact technique designed around each person's anatomy.
The operation reshapes the eyelid's contour and crease; it does not change the size of the eye itself. Dark circles caused by pigmentation, crow's-feet wrinkles, and a drooping brow fall outside its scope—the last calls for a brow lift instead. The adjacent buried-suture (non-incisional) double-eyelid method fixes a crease with stitches rather than an incision, and ptosis correction, which strengthens the lid-lifting muscle, is a separate operation that is sometimes combined with blepharoplasty.
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