I am wanting to get upper blepharoplasty surgery and researching doctors. I am quite worried about the scar, and I’m concerned you will see it even when my eyes are open. I have seen some people where the scars are very long and protrude well past the eye, and in some cases even above it! I have found a doctor online who looks like she does super neat sutures, how is this possible? I can’t even see the sutures, and this is supposedly straight after the procedure. What is this technique please
June 18, 2024
Answer: It is hard to know the time of this picture. This may be the eyelid all cleaned up immediately after surgery but before the placement of sutures. It may be the eyelid after the removal of sutures such as a subcuticular stitch. The important thing to understand is that the closure of the blepharoplasty is important but not as important as the design and execution of the surgery including what precisely was perform internally in the eyelid. In my opinion the blepharoplasty represented in this photograph will only be mediocre at best. The crease is too high, the eyelid platform skin is lax so the eyelid will heal with lash ptosis and likely crepey eyelid platform skin. It is far too early to tell but these are early hall marks of what I call post upper blepharoplasty syndrome.
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June 18, 2024
Answer: It is hard to know the time of this picture. This may be the eyelid all cleaned up immediately after surgery but before the placement of sutures. It may be the eyelid after the removal of sutures such as a subcuticular stitch. The important thing to understand is that the closure of the blepharoplasty is important but not as important as the design and execution of the surgery including what precisely was perform internally in the eyelid. In my opinion the blepharoplasty represented in this photograph will only be mediocre at best. The crease is too high, the eyelid platform skin is lax so the eyelid will heal with lash ptosis and likely crepey eyelid platform skin. It is far too early to tell but these are early hall marks of what I call post upper blepharoplasty syndrome.
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June 18, 2024
Answer: Upper blepharoplasty scar Blepharoplasty scars are usually placed in the natural upper eyelid crease. Scars are pink for the first six months or more as the wound heals. Longer scars outside the eyelid crease are performed if excess upper eyelid skin; a lateral brow lift may minimize the scar length. The photo you are showing looks like a very early postop with swelling and still has purple marking pens applied; it looks like a running intracuticular closure with internal dissolving sutures.
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June 18, 2024
Answer: Upper blepharoplasty scar Blepharoplasty scars are usually placed in the natural upper eyelid crease. Scars are pink for the first six months or more as the wound heals. Longer scars outside the eyelid crease are performed if excess upper eyelid skin; a lateral brow lift may minimize the scar length. The photo you are showing looks like a very early postop with swelling and still has purple marking pens applied; it looks like a running intracuticular closure with internal dissolving sutures.
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