Blepharoplasty Results

Dr. Schwartz tailors blepharoplasty results to suit each patient’s face.

Upper eyelid surgery is really effective for removing excess skin and sometimes a little fat pocket that forms at the medial or inner portion of the upper lid. In planning the upper eyelid incision in women, I take great care to go out a little bit beyond the outer portion of the eye for two reasons, one is that you can achieve more tightening out there without risking a compromised functionality of the upper lid and second is that it creates kind of a happy look in the lid of the woman instead of arcing the incision downward, which gives people a sad look. So I get a lot of people coming to me after having had that latter technique and saying, you know, I had this surgery but my eyes still look sad, why is that, and it is usually correctable with the simple little office procedure to change the orientation of that scar and that incision. In men, we have to plan the upper eyelid incision differently. It is sometimes preferable to leave a little more skin in the upper lid of a man so as not to feminize the man’s upper lid that is a real telltale sign of surgery. I see some really famous people walking around with eyes that look a little bit silly from an over resection of the upper lid skin and so I like to avoid that.