Depending on what is more pronounced, excess skin, bulging fat or a combination of both, several procedures can be done to improve the appearance of the eyes and make you look younger and more alert. This can make you look old and feel less confident about your appearance.
#Droppy eye lids skin
As the skin around the eyes stretch and become saggy and the muscles and connective tissue weaken, the fat behind the eyes begin to bulge forwards and give the appearance of bags under the eyes. Lower eyelid bags are also a sign of aging. There may be a mismatch in the symmetry of the two eyelids, and the result may not entirely match the patient’s expectations, but these risks are rare and generally more than 90% of patients are very satisfied with the outcome of their surgery. Leading to inability to close the eyelids especially while sleeping or some extra skin still being present. The result of surgery can be titrated to your preference, by altering the position of your upper eyelid skin crease and deciding how much fat, muscle and skin to remove.Īs with any surgery there are risks, which range from infection, bleeding and scaring to more specific risks of taking too much skin out or not enough. It can restore your peripheral vision and make your eyes appear younger and more alert. The operation is called a Blepharoplasty and involves removing excess, skin, muscle and sometimes fat. Hooded eyelids can be corrected by surgery. Sometimes the fat that sits behind the connective tissue of the eyelids bulges forwards. This stretch causes excess folds of skin to hang over the eyelid margin. Hooded eyelids develop due to stretching of the eyelids and weakening of the muscles and connective tissue in the eyelids. The excess skin can obstruct the field of vision especially on the sides of your vision and could make your eyes feel tired and look aged. Please do bring an old closeup photograph of you in your youth, to help me understand what your eyelid, eyebrow as well as facial and peri-ocular structure was like previously to help plan your surgery.Įxcess upper eyelid skin can cause hooding of the eyelids and this in turn can make your eyelids feel heavy and make you look older. There are risks in any surgical intervention ranging from infection, bleeding and scaring to more specific risks of over or under correction of the eyelid height, there may be a mismatch in the contour or the symmetry of the two eyelids, and the result may not entirely match the patient’s expectations, but these risks are rare and generally 80% of patients are very satisfied with the outcome of their surgery. The surgical procedure is still very similar to that in an adult, but needs to be performed under a general anaesthetic, when the child is put to sleep for the duration for the operation. In children often the muscle itself is weak and fibrotic as opposed to a normal but slipped muscle in an adult. Ptosis occurs in children too and it is often congenital i.e present from birth. Sometimes, if the function of the levator muscle (the muscle that opens the eye) is very poor, a sling operation may be required, where the forehead muscle is used to transmit its movement to the eyelid via a sling. The muscle is then repositioned or tightened so as to lift the eyelid to the required height. There are two main ways in which I correct the ptosis, either by opening the eyelid via a skin crease incision (so the scar is well hidden within the skin crease) or via an incision on the under surface of the eyelid, by flipping the eyelid over. It is performed under local anaesthesia, with the patient being awake for the operation and on a day case basis, i.e one does not need to stay in the hospital overnight. Ptosis (droopy eyelid) can be corrected by surgery after confirming that there is no underlying problem that needs addressing. Ptosis may be age related, could be the effect of wearing contact lenses, especially the RGP contact lenses or could be related to muscle or nerve problems.
This may interfere with your vision or may be cosmetically unacceptable. This causes one or both eyelids to droop down, more so towards the end of the day or when one is tired. In adults the most common reason for ptosis is slippage of the levator muscle of the eyelid from the tarsal plate (the firm cartilage like plate of the upper eyelid).
Ptosis (droopy eyelids) right eye worse than left
Squint (Strabismus) surgery in children.Botulinum toxin for cosmesis in the peri-ocular region.Inward Turning of the Eyelid (Entropion).Ectropion (Outward turning of the eyelid).Inflammation of the Eyelid (Blepharitis).
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