What is the Thread Procedure with Regards to Blepharoplasty?

This is a common method of threading an upper eyelid. The problem with these methods, like almost all thread methods, is that they are not long lasting. The result tends to disappear as soon as the sutures break.

Thread procedures use sutres that are barbed to pull things up.  They’re not used for eyelid surgery.  They can be used to lift the brow and secondarily, the lid.  They are generally not good procedures because they don’t address the issue.  They pull and don’t necessarily create a natural look, nor do they last.  But, they do have very little downtime.  In this procedure, the doctor sticks a barbed suture underneath the skin (at the hairline to minimize the scar) and pull the tissue up laterally.  It generally causes a very unnatural pulled look and doesn’t hold.  It can often cause asymmetry so that one side droops and is really not a preferred procedure.