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Hi Kmass,Blepharoplasty should not worsen crow's feet. By smoothing out wrinkles and excess skin around the lids with blepharoplasty, crow's feet lines may become more noticeable than before when the focus was on the eye lids.A little Botox after your blepharoplasty will give your lateral eye skin nothing to crow about.Good luck and be well.Dr. P
Dear Kmass2When the upper eyelid skin encroaches on the eyelids, the brain sends a signal to the forehead to lift the eyebrows. When you have upper eyelid surgery, this skin is trimmed, There is a reduced incentive to lift the eyebrows, so the forehead relaxes. This causes a fall in the eyebrow position. Along with this, the brow tissue also falls into the crowsfeet area making the lines look worse. When this issue is significant, the solution is a forehead lift provided enough eyelid skin has been left below the eyebrow so the eyes can close once surgery is performed.
From your picture the upper lid shows more on the left side. The lid position looks normal on the eye so I do not think you have ptosis or a droopy eyelid. Most likely the eye socket is larger on the left which allows the eyeball to sink in which allow the upper lid to drop down. Alternatively...
It really varies depends on the extend of your eyelid surgery, whether it is just skin excision, or suture blepharoplasty, or levator surgery. There are many variety of procedures that are done on the eyelids. And not all have bruising, some procedures there are no bruising actually. Typically,...
I would recommend discussing this with your plastic surgeon as it may be that you are referring to malar festoons, which may not be addressed with Blepharoplasty surgery, and can actually worsen with swelling and reveal prolonged bruising through the lymphatic channels. Your physician will know...
Final blepharoplasty results are usually seen two to three months after the procedure has been performed. It usually takes a couple of months for the incision to heal, and most of the visual swelling is gone in approximately one month.
Most excellent facelift surgeons are also excellent eyelid surgeons. The benefit of having both done at the same time is one anesthesia and one operation with one recovery. If you decide to have 2 different operations my personal opinion is that you should wait three months for recovery between...
A perfect result following filler injection can achieve a good result for the hollow eye. However very very few physicians can achieve and excellent result in my opinion. Delicate eyelid skin often bleeds, forms bruises and the injected filler can show through as a lump. Some patients,...
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