Eyelid Surgery

More about your surgery

Blepharoplasty usually takes one to three hours, depending on its extent. Your surgeon will make incisions following the natural lines of your eyelids, in the creases of your upper lids, and 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. He will then separate the skin from underlying fatty tissue and muscle, remove excess fat, and trim sagging skin and muscle if needed. At the end of surgery, the incisions are closed with fine sutures.

Some people have a pocket of fat beneath the lower eyelids but don't need to have any skin removed. In this case the surgeon will perform a transconjunctival blepharoplasty. He will make an incision inside patient?s lower eyelid, leaving no visible scar. The incision is then closed with dissolving sutures. This procedure is usually performed on younger patients with thicker, more elastic skin.

Your anaesthesia

Eyelid surgery is usually performed under local anaesthesia that numbs the area around your eyes, along with oral or intravenous sedatives. You'll be awake during the surgery, but relaxed and insensitive to pain. A fairly common procedure, you will be able to go home afterwards.