Eyelid Surgery
Blepharoplasty is generally done in an outpatient setting. Your surgeon administers intravenous drugs to enable you to relax and injects numbing medicine into your eyelids. This may cause you to get groggy.
During the procedure If you've surgery in your upper and lower eyelids surgery, the surgeon generally works on your own upper lids. He removes some excessive skin, muscle and fat, or she cuts along the fold of the eyelid, and shuts the cut.
He or she removes or redistributes excess fat, muscle and sagging skin, and shuts the cut.
If your eyelid droops close to your pupil, your surgeon may do blepharoplasty with a procedure called ptosis (TOE-sis) to address that problem.
Blepharoplasty usually takes less than two hours, determined by location and the amount of tissue being removed.
After the procedure After surgery you spend time in a recovery room, where you are monitored for complications. You can make after that day to recuperate at home.