![]() Still taking it easy as far as activity-wise, but one week you're pretty much recovered and back to your normal day-to-day activities. Cerrati: So I tell everyone it's about a one-week recovery. And what kind of recovery time are we talking about? I'd imagine it varies because it sounds like the approaches vary.ĭr. I tend to do those back in the operating room. And then the lower lids are a little bit more involved. If it's just the upper eyelids, we can actually do that in the clinic setting just under local anesthesia. So if the brow is being done, usually I perform that under general anesthesia, and then the upper lids, if we're coupling that with the brow, again under general anesthesia. And so, if the brows are ptotic or have fallen down some, addressing the brow can create a very significant improvement in the appearance. When I consider eyelid rejuvenation, you have to consider the brow and the eyelids kind of as one unit. Cerrati: So the surgical options are performed either up at the main hospital, the University Hospital, or out at one of the satellite offices. What about the surgical options? Tell me more about that. I'd imagine the nonsurgical happens in your clinic. Interviewer: And then where, if it is a surgical option. But I would say for eyelid and brow revisions, usually you're talking several, several years down the road, 10-plus years. Cerrati: So obviously, we can't stop the aging process, so it continues. Interviewer: And when you talk about long-lasting results, how long could somebody expect this to continue to be what they want it to be?ĭr. I wouldn't say it would give the patients a long-lasting result that they're really looking for when they come to my office. Really not much you can do for the upper eyelid skin, but the lower eyelid you can place filler in the tear trough to help provide some volume to the under eye, which gives them more of a rested appearance, and also doing a laser procedure to tighten the skin underneath the eyelid.Īs far as topical creams and those sorts of things, they do help slightly. Some other nonsurgical options include, for the brow, using Botox to elevate the brow. Botoxīotox, which is actually common medication that we use, that you think of smoothing wrinkles on the face, but you can actually use the push/pull of muscles on the face to actually create a brow lift to give a more rested appearance to the brow. I would say people that have more on the mild side of findings we can treat it nonsurgically. How often is it possible that somebody could do nonsurgical? Treating Droopy Eyelids without Surgeryĭr. You try to find out what their needs are as far as then determining which one of these procedures you're going to go with. Interviewer: You know? And just a quality of life thing as well. Interviewer: So you can get rid of the tired look and also improve your vision, which is fantastic. Depending on how they perform, there are certain insurance criteria and if they meet that criteria, insurance will actually cover the procedure. If that's the case, we could actually send them for an objective visual field test is what we call it. It's very common that patients come in and just say they look tired and their colleagues are commenting, both male and female.Īnother common complaint that patients will say is that it's affecting their vision, in which case the droopy eyelids can actually block some of their peripheral vision. This is actually more common in males than you would think. Cerrati: It starts with the patient's concerns and what their question is. Interviewer: How would you decide what is best for a particular patient?ĭr. ![]() There are nonsurgical options, in which case you put filler underneath the eye, you can do laser procedures to tighten the skin under the lid, and then there's a whole arsenal of surgical procedures, where we tighten the muscle underneath, we remove some of the skin, and we lift the brows, all giving a more rejuvenated or rested appearance. Cerrati: So there are actually a lot of different options. Now, is it something that you can do without surgery, or is surgery always involved? Surgical and Nonsurgical Options to Fix Droopy Eyelidsĭr. And you have a procedure that can do that. Cerrati: I would say the most common thing across the board is that patients say that they feel or look tired, especially when they look at themselves in the mirror. Cerrati, first of all, what usually brings patients to you looking for an eyelid procedure? What are some of the common themes?ĭr. Eric Cerrati is the Director of Facial Plastic Surgery at University of Utah Health. Interviewer: It's a pretty common question. From University of Utah Health, this is. Announcer: Health information from expects, supported by research.
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