Blepharoplasty: Eyelid Surgery
Eyelid surgery has continuously clocked in as a top-five mainstay of the most popular procedures in Turkey. Blepharoplasty surgery is the most widely used method to correct bags and treat the eyelids. It is an outpatient intervention -which does not require admission-, fast and safe, as long as it is performed by ophthalmologists specialized in ocular plastic surgery.
In 2020, it became the second one maximum performed procedure, in line with information from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
In addition, in recent years, more and more men are interested in having these interventions. Currently, 30% of those who undergo these surgeries are men, compared to 70% women, while, 5 years ago, the proportion was 10% men and 90% women.
Eyelid surgical treatment will constantly be a gold-preferred answer for the redundant skin, lax muscles, and sagging fat pads that come with age—however in our new normal, in which being close-up prepared is an unstated task requirement, the technique is proving to be a reliable fix for a slew of age-irrelevant eye-area concerns.
There is a huge increase in the number of younger people, let’s discuss why younger plastic surgery patients may just be our new normal.
Fading stigmas
Slowly however surely, the plastic surgery stigma for men and women alike is being erased. It is an increasing number of desirable to are looking for out surgical solutions, similarly to noninvasive treatments, to enhance one’s features. Social media – in particular, Instagram and TikTok – and the popular press are also contributing to the desire for younger patients to seek out eyelid surgeries, celebrities, including the Kardashians, for influencing the next generation of younger women to seek out a glamorous, well-defined eyelid shape.
The natural look is still in
Performing smaller procedures earlier allows for a patient to age more gradually, when they do spring for a surgery, it keeps procedures under the radar.
Accutite, an incision-free radiofrequency-based procedure that will yield many of the same benefits as a traditional blepharoplasty but on a smaller scale, can be recommended for patients who want an upper blepharoplasty but aren’t yet candidates for a formal surgery. It initiates a healing cascade that includes collagen and elastin production, so you’ll contract that soft tissue in the eyelid for the next three to six months, leading to a tighter upper eyelid over time.
Makeup
That pad of sagging skin over the eyelid means that there’s little room for trendy eye makeup, and even less for eyeliner or shadow, especially when paired with a thicker brow. When patients in their 20s and 30s are coming in, what they’re often complaining about is that they don’t have room to wear their makeup.
But overall, there’s a global trend toward younger-skewing patients for a lot of these aesthetic procedures. And the last two years have been exhausting enough no one wants their default look to be ‘sleepy,’ no matter how young you actually are.
Genetic predispositions
Hooded or heavy upper eyelids are a promised gift of aging, but environmental factors such as smoking and good old genetics, as well as time and gravity, can contribute to this appearance. You almost never address fatty excess in these younger people; instead, you only address skin excess. What that will usually look like is some early hooding on the upper eyelid, so you won’t be able to see much of the upper lid because you’ve got this hood of skin covering it.
