My staff and I try to ensure the comfort of our out of town guests during their consultations and procedures. I am a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon. Blepharoplasty surgery can be both for trimming redundant fat, extra skin and tightening the tone of the lid itself. Internal incisions can be used for both the extra fat and slight tightening the tone of the lid. It cannot address extra skin.
Laser treatment can help with the extra skin.
External blepharoplasty can handle all three problems. On the pages already posted the incisions are external due to the massive skin and tone problems involved Recovery is a function of what surgery was done, not just the incision. Both external eyelid and internal eyelid mucosa heal fast. Work on the eyelid muscle and lid tone have a much more variable recovery time. This part of your education is much better done during an in office consultation after an examination and evaluation.