Scope of Blepharoplasty

Blepharoplasty procedure carried out for Lower eyelid is almost always carried out for cosmetic reasons. This can correct drooping upper lids and puffy bags below ones eyes. These features are ones that make people look older and more tired than they actually are and may even interfere with vision. However, Blepharoplasty procedure won't remove crow's feet or other wrinkles, eliminate dark circles under your eyes, or lift sagging eyebrows. Also evidence of your ethnic or racial heritage cannot be erased by this procedure.

Purpose of Blepharoplasty

Blepharoplasty surgery for many, is the procedure for looking younger and more alert. For others, it is a welcome option for restoring vision that has become obscured.
In simpler words, it is a functional or cosmetic surgical procedure aiming to reshape the upper or lower eyelid by the removal and/or repositioning of excess tissue as well as by reinforcement of surrounding muscles and tendons. Sometimes, in case excessive skin in there, the skin may hang over the eyelashes and cause of loss of peripheral vision causing difficulty in activities such as driving or reading.

Curing After Blepharoplasty

Most of the patients undergoing blepharoplasty surgery have mild aching or burning that is normally controlled with Tylenol and cold compresses.

• After blepharoplasty surgery swelling on eyes remain for next ten days. A small puffiness may persist for few months.
• Most of the patients feel moderate bruising that begins to fade with in few days after blepharoplasty and is gone by two weeks.
• Regular day-to-day activities of patient may be resumed within two days of blepharoplasty surgery. Arduous activities should be avoided for about two weeks.
• Most patients prefer rest for about ten days after blepharoplasty surgery. They start their normal work with in two weeks.

What should be suitable age for Blepharoplasty?

Most of the people undergo blepharoplasty just above the age of 35 years. The eyelid skin is the much thinner skin as compare to rest of the face. After the age of 35, eyelid skin starts loosing its elasticity and become wrinkled. Eyelids appear saggy and scars of depression visible over there. Age is not only the factor for saggy eyelids, some more reasons are there like swelling under lower eyelids Skin and excess fat packets in eye socket. In this situation a person can go for blepharoplasty.
Blepharoplasty surgery is less modest in scope, cost, risk and recovery time as compare to other sugery like face-lifting, neck lifting or forehead lifting. People may elect blepharoplasty before going for full facial treatment. Most of patients undergo blepharoplasty once in lifetime. Because rest of your face doesn't need any surgery for ten to twenty years after blepharoplasty. you have chance to enjoy the improvement by blepharoplasty during your relative youth and vigor.

Reasons Behind Baggy Eyelids

• In your forties or late thirties, elasticity of your extremely thin skin of eyelids start loosing and getting stretch. This causes wrinkles in the upper eyelids and become daped by overhang. Epidermis becomes in relative excess on the eyelids as the collagen in the dermis starts to lost and crow's feet and wrinkles appear on the eyelids. The underlying orbital fat unveils as the skin of eyelids thinning.
Blepharoplasty will be suitable for those who has droopy and baggy eyelids.
• Facial fat begins to imbued, making to volume loss. The resulting reduction not only emphasizes the appearance of baggy skin, but may be its primary cause.
• The orbicularis muscle stretches, thins out and becomes wrinkled, leading to sagging of the overlying skin of eyelids.
• The eyelid skin starts to thin and get stretched by the influence of the wear-and-tear of blinking, gravitational forces, excessive smoking and sun exposure.
• Deeper fat pockets in the eyelid socket become visible. these packets appear forward due to a weakening of an eyelid restraining layer known as the "orbital septum". Blepharoplasty can make your facial appearance better and enrich your self-confidence.
• The orbital fat packets inside the eyelid socket may absorb rather than bulge out and gives a hollowed appearance in both upper and lower eyelids.
• In later forties, the frontals muscle may baggy and lowering the brow, and the excess eyelid skin becomes more noticeable.
• The tissues of cheek and midface starts loosing their tone and lowers, making a small area of depression under the lower eyelids, emphasizing lower eyelid imperfections, and allowing the corners of the orbital rim to show through the skin.
• In some patients, a triangular fluid filed under the bone of lower corner of lower eyelids. this swelling becomes purplish and appears more on excess salt intake.
Blepharoplasty is a procedure that can make your eyes and aging face fresh.