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What to Do About Blood Vessels on the Upper Eyelid?

asked 1 year ago by Bored in Tdot
Latest answer by Vivek Bansal, MD
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Tags: upper eyelids

I have attached a picture (which isn't mine), but I have the exact same issue - these veins started to develop last year and I still have them. What is the reason and how can I cure them!?

2 answers to What to Do About Blood Vessels on the Upper Eyelid?

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Vein Treatment

They can be treated with a laser, but you have to wear special contacts to protect your eye from the laser light.
Vivek Bansal, MD

Danville Plastic Surgeon
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CO2 ablative laser will get rid of them

Instead of using Yag or Diode, or any other more penetrating lasers for upper eyelid, I'd use CO2 fractional ablative laser with metal corneal eyeshield protection. Yags or Diode lasers may penetrate too deeply and cause retinal injury. What CO2 laser would accomplish is 1) Using thermal energy to get rid of those fine capillaries 2) stimulate collagen production of the upper eyelid so future capillary formations wouldn't be so visible 3) Make your eyes look wider and... more
K. Alex Kim, MD

Chandler General Surgeon

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