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Eyelid Aesthetic

Aesthetic eyelid surgery, also called ßlepharoplasty, is an operation performed to remove excess skin and fat bags from the lower and upper eyelids.

With this surgery, you can get rid of the excess skin on the upper eyelid that is sagging and restricting the visual field, as well as the fat pads in the form of bagging on the lower and upper eyelids.

While aesthetic eyelid surgery provides patients with a younger and more dynamic appearance, it also provides a significant decrease in the tendency to sleep, which has increased functionally.

Frequently Asked Questions about Eyelid Aesthetics

The first operation for the operation is detailed planning and it is of great importance as it guides the surgical procedure. At this stage, the operation to be performed on the markings is described to the patient once again, and the type of interventions to which areas are once again detailed.

Blepharoplasty operation can often be performed under local anesthesia or a combination of local anesthesia and sedation anesthesia. In both types of anesthesia, some leading anesthetic drugs are administered to reduce and relieve the patient's tension before the operation, so that the patient does not feel any pain during the operation. It is important that the patient, whose sedation anesthesia is planned at the end of the interview period for anesthesia before the operation, does not take food at least 6 hours before the operation.

While the upper blepharoplasty operation takes 30 minutes on average, the excess skin, muscle and adipose tissue are removed during the operation according to the need. While the incision made during the operation is placed in the eyelid fold, it ends in the corner of the eye parallel to the crow's feet.

While the lower blepharoplasty operation takes 1 hour, the incision is 2 mm. made of gold. During this process, especially the removal and reshaping of the fat pads that make bagging on the lower lid is applied. Excess skin is also removed.

In both operations, the incisions are sutured with subcutaneous sutures and after the operation, the patient does not feel any pain during suture removal. At the end of the operation, sterile bands are attached to the lower and upper eyelids and the patient is taken to the room.

Starting from the early period after the operation, cold application is applied to the eyelids intermittently for a few days. Thanks to this application, edema and bruises that may occur are kept to a minimum.

Mild pain and tingling sensation that starts in the 2nd hour after the operation is a frequently encountered condition, and this complaint can be kept under control thanks to simple painkillers.

During the blepharoplasty operation, the recovery is fast, the swelling that occurs in the first 2 days quickly returns to normal, and the patient can continue his normal life by using sunglasses from the first day. Although bruising is not very common, it may occur rarely due to the thin structure of the lid skin, and this regresses to a large extent within 4-5 days.

After the operation, the first dressing is on the 2nd day, and the stitches are removed on the 6th day after the dressings done every other day. At the end of this process, different massages can be offered to the patient in order to quickly eliminate the remaining mild edema.

In addition to the use of antibiotics and painkillers for 1 week after the operation, it may be recommended to use an eye drop that your surgeon deems appropriate. Although it is very rare, complaints such as sensitivity to light and tearing may occur for 2-3 weeks, while these problems resolve spontaneously in a short time.

Most of the time, patients hope that the drooping in the eyebrow corners will disappear thanks to eyelid aesthetics. However, while a rejuvenation is provided around the eyes in the eyelid aesthetic operation, the drooping of the eyebrows is not eliminated. In order to correct this area, eyebrow suspension techniques should be included in the operation. For this, before the operation, the benefits of the operation are explained to the patient in detail through figures and their own photographs.

With the rejuvenation around the eyes, the eyes get a more lively and dynamic appearance, while botulinum toxin (BOTOX) to be applied 2 weeks later in parallel with the demand of the patients, wrinkles caused by mimics in areas such as forehead, crow's feet, and the middle of the eyebrows can be eliminated and more harmonious and satisfactory results can be obtained. can be achieved.