Wrinkles and Excess Skin After Upper and Lower Blepharoplasty?
I had both upper & lower blepharoplasty 4 months ago.
Please tell me if I should have reconstructive surgery for the wrinkled skin texture at the
outer edge and the big wrinkle at inner edge of my eyes.
There is also a piece of skin at both outer edges that pulls when opening my eyes.
Should this be fixed?
My eyes are so different in shape which is what I wanted fixed with this surgery.
Is that too much to expect?
I was also told that the skin area under my eyes will always be slightly swollen.
Thank you for your question!
You've asked several things in your question and you submitted some photos.
First of all, let's assume a couple of things about the history.
You've had upper and lower eyelid surgery and in the photo, you mentioned about wrinkles,
about excess skin and you mentioned about the eyelid being pulled down.
Something to understand about cosmetic eyelid surgery in general, is that eyelid surgery
specifically does not address wrinkles.
Upper eyelid surgery typically addresses excess skin or in situations such as asian eyelid
surgery, it involves the creation of a crease or fold in the upper eyelid where one did
no exist.
It does not necessarily address wrinkles directly.
Now in the case of upper eyelids, if someone has a lot of extra skin, then yes, there may
be some improvement in the appearance of wrinkles but a lot of times it's about the amount of
skin that had a lot of those wrinkles is removed.
In the lower eyelid, that's where a lot of things get trickier.
With the intention of improving wrinkles in the lower eyelids, a lot of plastic surgeon
will remove skin.
And unfortunately, that is not the best choice from my experience
of 20 years
of oculoplastic cosmetic surgery, in that we
have
to distinguish skin excess versus skin quality.