Eyelid surgery is performed for many reasons. Often a patient will desire a more youthful appearance to their eyes. A patient may complain of baggy eyelids, wrinkles, tired looking eyes, heaviness in the upper eyelids, skin hanging over the eyelid margin or an obstruction of their vision. Eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty is able to address these problems by either removing or repairing abnormalities of the skin, muscle and fat around the eyes. This is completed as day surgery and the patient will not need to spend a night in the hospital.
Scar revision is a procedure to lessen the obvious presentation of a scar.
Although the elimination of facial scars is impossible, camouflaging them and lessening the degree of the deformity is often easily achievable. Scar revision surgery consists of thinning the scar, breaking up the visual pattern and reorienting the scar into normal skin creases. Dermabrasion is a procedure used to level uneven areas of face. Indications include scarring from acne, traumatic scars, sun and liver spots . The procedure consists essentially of leveling the affected areas with a small diamond wheel.