Are you Happy with Your Reflection?
Eyelids. They blink for us, allow us to close our eyes during the scary parts of movies, and betray us when we have starring contests against our children. Without them we’d have a hard time sleeping, and no one truly looks dead on a TV show until a sympathetic character comes up and gently shuts their lids.
They catch the eye of the opposite sex, as men wink and girls bat their eyelashes. The billion dollar industry of makeup exists to make eyes appear as good as they can be. Don’t you want yours to look nice?
Unfortunately, there are certain medical conditions that, through no fault of the patient, make their eyes less attractive. And then, of course, there’s the toll of aging. Eye plastic surgery is available to help with some problems. Keep in mind that while aggressive surgery on the eyelids will provide a dramatic change, it may look harsh when finished. There is nothing to gain in trading one eye deformity or another.
Blepharoplasty is the term for cosmetic eye surgery. It is basically designed to maintain the appearance of your eye. It’s important to note that this means the eyelids and the area around it, not the round orb you see through. Surgeries on the eyeball have to do with vision and correcting it; surgeries on the eye region are cosmetic. The primary goal is to restore the original glory to the eye which time and life circumstances have changed and aged.
How do you determine if you need blepharoplasty? Truthfully, few people actually need eye plastic surgery. It’s a cosmetic correction, not a cure for a life-threatening disease. We’re talking about two different things here. Eye plastic surgery is something that is done because the patient wants it.
How do you determine if you want blepharoplasty? That answer is simple: stand in front of a mirror. Do you like what you see? Do you feel awake but look beat? Are your eyelids droopy? Are there bags and bulges that weren’t there a few years ago?
Once we hit forty or so, the elasticity in the eyelid tissues begins to give out. Something to thin, delicate, and fragile will begin to stretch and sag over time. This rate comes on faster for something patients than others. We all age; there’s no escaping it. The question becomes: can you live with what you see or not?