Three operations account for most eyelid and upper facial surgery, and they are constantly confused with one another. They address different structures, and a heavy upper lid can be caused by any of the three, or by all of them at once.
Blepharoplasty removes and re-contours excess skin and fat in the lid fold. Ptosis repair raises a lid margin that sits too low because the lifting muscle has stretched or detached. Brow lift raises a brow that has dropped and is adding weight to the lid from above.
Operating on the wrong one produces a technically clean result that does not fix the complaint. An examination that measures lid margin position, levator function, brow position and skin excess separately is what tells the surgeon which of the three, or which combination, is actually indicated.
Blepharoplasty
Eyelid skin and fat surgery for the heavy, hooded or tired-looking lid fold, including what the first two weeks of recovery involve.
ReadPtosis Repair
Blepharoptosis explained: why the upper lid sits low, how levator advancement and frontalis sling procedures differ, and why it is specialist work.
ReadBrow Lift
Brow ptosis and brow lifting: how a dropped brow adds weight to the upper eyelid, and why brow position is assessed before eyelid surgery.
Read