Thank you for the question.
You submitted a single photo and you are stating in your question that you visited a surgeon
about upper eyelid surgery however your surgeon didn’t recommend that and it seems to be
the context of the presence of dry eyes.
And you are asking would be a brow lift surgery be less taxing on your eyes?
Well, I can certainly give you some guidance to this question.
A little bit of background, I’m a Board-certified cosmetic surgeon and
Fellowship-trained oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
I have been in practice in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years and cosmetic eyelid
surgery and brow lifting surgery, face lifting surgery, basically a lot in the area, procedures
and solutions for facial aging is the core of my practice.
This includes non-surgical solutions like injectables and various advanced methods of
using blunt cannulas as well laser devices, thermal energy devices.
So basically in your situation, having dry eyes is an important issue.
But the question that remains is whether or not a brow lift would make any impact.
Not so much in a dry eye perspective in my mind but really from an aesthetic perspective.
You see, what you are clearly concerned about is the appearance of some extra skin over
your eyes which is why you probably considered eyelid surgery.
Well, the reason why a lot of surgeons are very much concerned about dry eyes because
if they don’t have an ophthalmology background, eyelid surgery is typically and annually the
3rd most popular cosmetic surgery, if they don’t have an ophthalmology background,
very often there are some issues with the management of dry eyes.
Very often the surgeon who performs the procedure isn’t the doctor who manages the dry eyes.
Myself, having an ophthalmology background, I am familiar with dry eyes.
And in oculoplastic surgery, we specialize in the lacrimal system which is the tear gland,
the tear duct system.
So I’ve done blepharoplasty for many patients with severe dry eyes.
It’s all about management because that’s ultimately, basically something that I said
years ago and still remains to be true is that eyelids that look good and function well.
So in of itself, I would say that it doesn’t quite make sense to me that a brow lift would
a benefit because it would be less taxing to the health of your eyes.
From my perspective, from the aesthetic perspective, I would say a brow lift would not be a good
idea.
Looking at the photo, the position of your brows seems high enough.
I would ask you to imagine how much higher the brow lift would be to get that skin to
be more taut.
And unfortunately, I think that if you were to undergo the brow lifting procedure, from
my view, it wouldn’t look very natural and you might look a little bit surprised than
you want to look.
I think that there are more than a few options for you and it might be to your benefit to
actually meet with someone who is more of a cosmetic oculofacial plastic surgeon because
there is certainly some critical important issues when it comes to the health of the
eyes that are raising concerns for you and someone with an ophthalmology background will
simply be just more comfortable with that issue.
Now it may be that blepharoplasty or brow lift may not be optimal for you and you may
just have to wait but a proper examination by a specialist I think is indicated in this
situation with all due respect to the doctor that you went to.
So meet with a specialist as I described and see if you can get some more clarity about
the basis about any suggested procedure.
It is so important to have good communication and really understand what the outcome will
be and what the impact would be on the health of your eyes.
You really want to be sure to make this a smooth process as possible.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!