Lower blepharoplasty is an effective method to remove the old age of the eyes.

Eyelid skin – it is one of the most delicate structures on the human face. From a very early age, it is this area of ​​the face that is exposed to many mechanical factors. Everyone knows how little kids love to rub their sleepy eyes with their fists. With age, the layers of the face are affected by gravitational forces and gradually fall down. Due to facial expressions and gravity, wrinkles gradually form on the face, and in the eye area they appear first of all. Dark circles under the eyes, bags, fine lines – all these are the results of lack of sleep, malnutrition, age and the influence of many other factors. Lower blepharoplasty makes it possible to get rid of such problems with the eyelids.

Lower blepharoplasty – surgical correction of the lower eyelid

Lower blepharoplasty – This is an aesthetic surgery on the lower eyelids. In modern aesthetic surgery, the lower eyelid is considered as a part of the mid-medial part of the face, while the lower eyelid is formally separated from the tissues of the infraorbital region only by the supporting ligament of the orbicular muscle of the eye. At the Medical Club clinic, where blepharoplasty is one of the most frequently performed anti-aging surgeries, experts believe that  lower blepharoplasty makes it possible to eliminate age-related changes in this area of ​​the face, allowing you to achieve a pronounced and lasting effect. Such an operation requires high qualification and rich experience of a plastic surgeon.

Inferior blepharoplasty:

• the volume of intervention is determined by the severity of gravitational changes;
• things to consider when planning lower blepharoplasty;
• lower blepharoplasty technique: main steps.

The volume of intervention is determined by the severity of gravitational changes

In order to determine the required amount of intervention, when planning lower blepharoplasty, it is necessary to take into account, first of all, the severity of gravitational changes in the middle-medial part of the face. There is the following classification:

• 1 type – there are minimal changes in the area of ​​the lower eyelid;
• 2 type – patients of this type have minimal manifestations of the blephaco-buccal sulcus;
• 3type – there are early manifestations of gravitational ptosis below the margin of the orbit;
• 4 type – gravitational ptosis below the edge of the orbit is pronounced.

Based on this classification, only isolated lower blepharoplasty that does not extend beyond the orbit is performed on patients with type 1 and 2 severity of gravitational changes. Such a volume of surgery for patients with type 3 and 4 does not provide an optimal result, in such cases lower blepharoplasty is often performed in combination with fronto-temporal lifting and upper blepharoplasty.

Things to Consider When Planning a Lower Blepharoplasty

The surgeons of the clinic Medical Club are sure that plastic surgery involving correction of the area around the eyes should be carefully planned taking into account the condition of the patient's skin, his age, additional measures that are planned to be carried out during the intervention (for example, resection excess tissue, fat). Planning for lower blepharoplasty should consider the following points:

• relation to the skin: if there is excess skin in the lower eyelids – resection is performed with or without detachment of the skin flap; in the absence of excess skin – access from the conjunctiva;
• relation to the orbicular muscle of the eye: if the muscle is left intact – use transconjunctival access; tension and redrape of the orbital and preseptal portions of the muscle – formation of a flap with its subsequent fixation to the periosteum of the lateral edge of the orbit and the deep temporal fascia at several points;
• relation to retroseptal fat: resection of fat is possible, its immersion back into the orbital cavity with subsequent strengthening of the septum along the lower edge of the orbit, bringing the fat down into the pocket.  

Method of performing lower blepharoplasty: main steps

When performing lower blepharoplasty, it is necessary to follow the successive stages of surgical intervention. Depending on the individual characteristics of the patient at the Medical Club clinic, surgeons choose transconjunctival or percutaneous surgical access. If necessary, resection of excess skin areas is performed. Manipulations are made with retroseptal fat and  portions of the circular muscle of the eye: immersion of prolapsing fatty hernias into the orbit with subsequent strengthening of the septum in the densest part of the orbit in combination with the movement of the muscle flap, which ensures a lasting effect after surgery. At the last stage, sutures are applied, and postoperative complications are prevented.  Operating Surgeon  in the Medical Club clinic usually controls, & nbsp; to process  healing  after lower eyelid surgery was fast, efficient and without complications. The patient returns to his normal routine already 10 days after the operation.