It’s normal for your body to change as you age. But changes to the skin can affect your confidence, making you more self-conscious.
One place that may make you feel most self-conscious and uncomfortable is your face. Wrinkles on your face are usually more prominent than those on other parts of the body.
Your face is the first thing most people see, and it’s the first thing you see when you look in the mirror. When you don’t love what you see in the mirror, it can affect how you feel about yourself.
But there are ways to boost your self-confidence. One way to do this is through eyelid surgery.
Eyelid surgery treats sagging eyelids and bags under the eyes, making you look more youthful and alert! Keep reading to learn if eyelid surgery could give you more self-confidence and help you love what you see in the mirror again!
What is Eyelid Surgery?
There are several different kinds of eyelid surgery, but the one used to treat sagging eyelids is blepharoplasty. Blepharoplasty is a minimally invasive cosmetic procedure that can significantly reduce the appearance of sagging eyelids.
Blepharoplasty is usually performed as an outpatient procedure; recovery only takes a few weeks. After you’ve recovered, you’ll face the world feeling beautiful, inside and out.
What Blepharoplasty Treats
Blepharoplasty treats sagging upper eyelids, lower eyelids, or both. Sagging lower eyelids tend to create bags under the eyes, whereas drooping upper eyelids make it hard to open your eyes completely.
Because of this, your eyes may look hooded or half open. Sagging upper eyelids can also interfere with vision, making it more challenging to use the full field of vision.
Drooping eyelids are usually just a side effect of aging. As you age, your skin loses elasticity.
Losing elasticity in your skin causes many kinds of wrinkles and also causes the eyelids to droop. Blepharoplasty can fix this drooping by removing excess skin and fat that can be weighing and pulling your eyelids down.
Good candidates for eyelid surgery are in good health with no pre-existing medical conditions that could interfere with surgery. If you have drooping upper eyelids, your health insurance may cover at least part of the surgery.
Since drooping eyelids can get in the way of your vision, blepharoplasty may be deemed medically necessary to fully restore your visual field. If your sagging eyelids prevent you from seeing, your insurance may cover some of the procedure.
However, you can have the procedure whether or not you have drooping upper eyelids. You can have blepharoplasty and treat your upper and lower eyelids simultaneously to achieve the most rejuvenation possible.
What Getting Blepharoplasty is Like
Blepharoplasty is a minimally invasive procedure, making it very low-risk. Our oculoplastic surgeon at St. Luke’s at The Villages, Dr. Licht, is highly experienced, ensuring that the procedure is as safe as possible when you undergo it at our facility.
Dr. Licht will give you the best surgical experience possible, whether you want to treat your upper eyelids, lower eyelids, or both. Dr. Licht’s long history of excellent surgical results ensures you can trust him to revitalize your face and eyes with his expert techniques.
Improve Your Self Confidence
Blepharoplasty can make you feel as young as you are by eliminating bags under the eyes and drooping upper eyelids. Your eyes will be able to open up fully, making you look and, more importantly, feel more alert.
If your upper eyelids get in the way of your vision, the cosmetic procedure will also improve your vision, giving you a better view of the world and your freshly rejuvenated face! With eyelid surgery, everyone, including yourself, can see your bright, beautiful eyes so much better!
You’ll look less tired, helping you feel more awake and ready to take on whatever life has in store for you. By getting eyelid surgery, you can feel more confident in your appearance and yourself.
Long-Lasting Results
After the procedure, your eyes will be a little bruised and swollen for a week or two, but after that, you’ll start to see the incredible results. But blepharoplasty doesn’t just make you look more youthful and alert in the short term because its results last!
Patients who get blepharoplasty rarely need a second procedure as the eyelids tend not to droop after eyelid surgery. The results last years, allowing you to feel youthful even as you age!
Lower blepharoplasty tends to last the longest. As long as you maintain a good skincare routine, you don’t need to worry about getting deep bags under your eyes again after having eyelid surgery.
Upper blepharoplasty can also last a long time, although your eyelids may droop a little after around seven years after the procedure. However, following a good skincare routine can reduce further drooping in the long term.
If you want to feel more beautiful and love what you see in the mirror, eyelid surgery will help rejuvenate your appearance. What’s not to love about feeling and looking brighter?
Do you want to know if eyelid surgery is right for you? Take the next step on your journey to looking your best by requesting your appointment at St. Luke’s at The Villages in Brownwood, FL, today! Haven’t you waited long enough to make a change?
