What you need to know about lower blepharoplasty?

Lower blepharoplasty, also called lower eyelid surgery, is a surgical procedure improving the saggy, baggy, and puffy, wrinkled lower eyelids. Most of the time, this surgery is conducted in combination with such surgeries as facelift, mid-facelift, brow lift, and upper blepharoplasty (upper eyelid surgery). 

With the help of lower blepharoplasty, the doctor can remove excess skin and fat, wrinkles under the eyes as well as correct the dark circles. As a result, the person looks much younger, and the under-eye area becomes smoother and flat without any wrinkles and eye bags. After removing the excess fat and skin, the doctor sutures the surgery area delicately, which doubles the result of the surgery. 

Lower eyelid surgery can be administered under local and general anesthesia. The patient is not fully asleep during the operation, but the doctor can numb the eyelid by putting eye drops to relieve the pain. The incision is made in the under-eye area just below the lower eyelashes. The most common target sites for lower blepharoplasty are under-eye bags, dark circles under the eye, wrinkles.

When it comes to the preparation for the lower eyelid surgery, you should not either drink or eat 2~3 hours before the surgery. Also, make sure that you have sunglasses with you to protect after the surgery. Other than that, the doctor can ask you to list all types of medications you take now. He or she can also want to know the history of the disease. 

It is a possible and usual thing to experience swelling, redness, bleeding after the surgery. Therefore, you must follow post-surgery instructions, take all the medications, and apply ointments or eye drops if the doctor prescribes it to you. Additionally,  the doctor might recommend you to do an ice and heat pack for compression to reduce the amount of redness, swelling.