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People say that your eyes are the window to your soul. Also, is the first thing that you notice on someone’s face. With the years, the eyelids start to become saggy and the excess of skin can even drop so much that the skin can hang over your eyes and obstruct your vision and it can even get really hard to open your eyes. And if that is the case you can even look older that what you really are.

You may fix that problem and look younger as easy as removing some of the fat behind your eye muscle.

Eyelid control

• Ptosis is droopiness of the eyelid. This droopiness is not caused by excessive skin but instead from a weakened or detached tendon that raises the eyelid. Ptosis is corrected by shortening or reattaching the muscle that elevates the eyelid. This procedure can be done by itself or in addition to the blepharoplasty procedure, depending on your situation.

• Dermatochalasis or redundant eyelid skin is the result of excess skin that creates the appearance of puffiness. Eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty is the treatment for dermatochalasis. It works by removing excess skin, muscle and fat from your eyelid.

• Fatty prolapse arises when tissue around the eye becomes relaxed, which enables normal fatty tissue to protrude forward. This change commonly occurs because of time and aging and can contribute to droopy eyelid.

Brow Ptosis

As you grow older you can develop a brow ptosis, that means that your eyebrows become droopy and you can always fix it by removing the tissue beneath the skin’s surface. It can be done in your forehead, hairline or scalp.

Ideal patients

Most patients that have this procedure done are men and women that have realistic expectations about the surgery. Most patients are 35 year old and older but if the baggy eyelids are hereditary, you can have this procedure done even earlier in life. Blepharoplasty can enhance your appearance and your self-assurance.

Getting older

Removing the fat from your eyelids is permanent, and will effectively eliminate puffiness. However, as your skin continues to age, the wrinkling among your eyelid area may return. But despite the unavoidable aging process, patients are generally satisfied with their results for years following surgery. Other patients make a choice to undergo additional improvements to their eyelids later down the road.

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