Upper blepharoplasty of the eyelid

Everyone without exception is subject to aging, but forFor women, the result of this process often turns out to be a painful blow to self-esteem. How offensive it is to see how once elastic, delicate skin sags and forms wrinkles and folds! This is especially noticeable in the eye area, where the skin is the thinnest and most sensitive. Darkening of the eyelids, their swelling, drooping over the eye - all this, in addition, changes the expression of the look, and, as they say, ages it. Cosmetic manufacturers offer a lot of masking agents to smooth out this effect, but none of them can be 100% effective and cannot work around the clock. And a woman wants to please not only others, but also herself - to admire herself in the mirror with a smile and pride. Modern plastic surgery offers a simple and safe way to solve the problem of drooping eyelids and other imperfections of the skin around the eyes. The upper blepharoplasty procedure will allow you to get rid of:

excess fat in the upper eyelid;
folds formed by excess skin;
overhanging of the skin on the eye and other imperfections.

In modern practical medicine, the upperBlepharoplasty has found another, quite popular today, application - it is changing the shape of the eyes. With the help of this procedure, the patient can correct the shape of her eyes, make them larger, for example. This is common among girls and women with the so-called Asian eyelid - devoid of a fold, like on the European one. It can also be used by people who, for subjective reasons, are dissatisfied with the shape of their upper eyelids and want to correct it. There are no special contraindications to this operation, however, before undergoing the procedure, it is necessary to undergo a consultation with a specialist. He will have to assess the condition of the eyelids and prescribe a method for their correction. According to the method of implementation, this operation is divided into two types:

traditional provides an external cut;
transconjunctival provides an internal incision.

The second method is more technically difficult, but itprovides the least pain at the incision site after surgery and leaves no visible scars. With the traditional method, the scars should disappear completely within a few months, but pain remains for a few weeks. Doctors, despite the fact that the procedure does not require hospitalization and does not affect a person's ability to work, strongly recommend taking at least a few days of rest after it so that the swelling goes down, and also so as not to endanger the suture sites.