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Singapore Eyelid Surgery - The Procedure
During the surgery an extra skin, fat and muscle are removed from upper and lower eyelids. The surgery can repair a drooping upper eyelid and a "puffy" lower eyelid, which can make you appear tired or older than you actually are, they can also interrupt with your visual fields. You must know that this operation will not repair the wrinkles on the sides of the eyes, skin pigmentation around the eyes and fallen eyebrows. Eyelid surgery can be combined with face-lift, brow lift and forehead lift.
Singapore Eyelid Surgery - Operation process
The operation usually lasts from one to three hours depend on the magnitude of the procedure. Usually the surgeon will fix the upper eyelid in both eyes and then the lower ones. During a standard procedure the surgeon will perform a skin excision in the folds of an eyelids. In the lower eyelids the incision is made through the eyelash line and it can go until the corner of the eyes. After the incision is made the surgeon will separate the skin from the fat and muscles beneath it, remove and extra tissue and put a gentle sutures. In case there is no extra skin present the surgeon will make and excision inside the eye so it won't be seen from the outside. This kind of procedure usually performed on younger patients with more elastic skin. The operation usually performed with local anesthetics and some sedatives given intravenous. You will be consciousness but fell no pain whatsoever.
Singapore Eyelid Surgery - After Surgery
After the surgery your both eyes will have bandages. You may fell pain in the area of the surgery after the anesthetics will wear off, it can be overcome with over the counter analgesics. You'll have to lie down with you head up and putt ice on your eye for the first 24 hours to reduce swelling and hemorrhage (those side effects vary from patient to patient, they usually peak during the first week after the surgery and may last for two weeks to one month.
Singapore Eyelid Surgery - Healing
You will be able to read and watch TV about two days after the surgery and most off the patients are ready to go back to work 10-14 days after the surgery.
The healing process is gradual you'll have pink scars up until 6 month and maybe more, the color will fade away as time passes until they become a white almost invisible line.
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