What is Healing Time for Asian Blepharoplasty on Young Male?

What is the difference in healing times (for upper blepharoplasty in Asian) for a healthy 18 year old male, as opposed to someone 30, 40 even 50 years old? Is the healing time dramatically lower, and by how much? Is a month sufficient to go out and not have anyone know that it was performed at all?

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Healing time for Asian Blepharoplasty is variable and dependent on the person, genetics, etc.

You can't guarantee anything in medicine and with surgery and that goes for Asian Blepharoplasty as well. Based on my experience doing asian blepharoplasty, a month should be plenty of time. You may not have people not notice at all though because Asian Blepharoplasty is an anatomical change to your eye appearance which people will notice of course. But the swelling and bruising are usually markedly decreased by the time a month rolls around. I sometimes see... more

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Healing time for Asian blepharoplasty

Asian blepharoplasy aims to create a low, natural lid crease that contours to the shape of the lid margin and gives the eyelid more definition. Healing time in an 18 year old would not be dramatically different than someone in their 30's or 40's. In fact younger patients can still develop more inflammation than their older counterparts as the immune system can be more aggressive. Generally, young men and women undergoing an Asian blepharoplasty can expect the... more