Blepharoplasty
Eyelid surgery
The objective of blepharoplasty is to restore a more youthful appearance to the eyelid, maintaining the features of each person, maintaining a natural appearance, avoiding visible scars and protecting eye health. The evolution of surgical techniques in recent years has been the result of better knowledge of facial aging processes.
In the upper eyelid are characterized by an excess and sagging of the skin of the eyelid, which causes an aesthetic alteration but in some cases also causes an alteration of the visual field of the patient and ocular fatigue due to the weight that the excess skin represents for eyelid.
In the lower eyelid, the laxity of the fibrotendinous structures that appear with age causes two fundamental changes at the eyelid level. On the one hand, orbital fat, which occupies a large part of the orbit, is herniated forward, becoming visible on the skin and giving rise to the colloquially known "bags". Secondly, the stretching and sagging of the skin, orbicular muscle and tendons of the eyelids give rise to wrinkles, folds and a lower eyelid descent.
Blepharoplasty of the upper eyelid consists of the removal of excess skin and in some cases of a part of the underlying orbicularis muscle. Some cases also require eliminating part of the internal fat package, but always conservatively. For this surgery, incisions are made in the natural folds of the eyelid, which avoid the visibility of the scars. In lower blepharoplasty we must distinguish between the treatment of the bags and the treatment of laxity and wrinkles of the skin.
