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With age, the skin becomes progressively less elastic—an unmistakable sign of aging. This is most visible around the eyelids, where the skin is thinnest. Drooping eyelids affect both women and men and appear inevitably with age.
Loss of skin elasticity also causes wrinkles around the eyes. Over time these wrinkles deepen, which is determined not only by age and individual skin properties, but also by harmful external factors affecting the skin, such as excessive sun exposure and smoking. Over time the eyelids change their appearance due to increasingly visible excess skin in the form of so‑called bags, wrinkles and fat pads. This creates a feeling of fatigue, narrows the field of vision, and makes the entire face look tired and unnecessarily aged. Correction of drooping eyelids, or blepharoplasty, is a corrective procedure—one of the most common in plastic surgery—that involves removing excess eyelid skin. As we age, the eyelids stretch because the muscles that support them lose tone. As a result, excess skin and fat accumulate above and below the eyelids; brows can become droopy, upper lids may sag, and bags form under the eyes. A frequent consequence of eyelid drooping and age‑related changes to eyelid skin—varying by individual—is an unpleasant restriction of the visual field due to lax upper‑eyelid skin. This especially affects the upper and lateral parts of the field of vision. Thanks to a relatively simple and quick plastic‑surgery procedure—correction of the upper and/or lower eyelids—excess skin and fat can be removed, restoring a more youthful appearance to the eyes and face.
This small eyelid‑correction procedure, performed by an experienced plastic‑surgery specialist under local anesthesia in a modern operating suite, helps reduce or even eliminate unpleasant signs of aging as well as vision problems caused by drooping eyelids. After surgery, the eyes and face look younger, the unpleasant feeling of morning heaviness disappears, and your field of vision improves.
