No anesthesia eyelid lift

The recovery time for eye lid surgeries varies from person to person.  It is usually some what from one to two weeks.  However, I have noticed that recovery time gets cut down to half once major anesthesia is not used.  Anesthesia cause a significant amount of swelling and bruising.  In our practice we have eliminated the use of anesthesia for most of the face plastic surgeries. 

The only problem is that there are not many plastic surgeons that are able to do all types of eyelid surgery without anesthesia.

In many patients, about 80% of the swelling and bruising is resolved by 7-10 days after surgery.

The last 20% gradually dissipates over the following 4-8 weeks.

2 weeks is a good amount of time to take off from work, but you can go back after 1 week if you're not too concerned about people noticing that you've had some surgery.

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