When age sets in, often it starts to manifest first around the eyes and in your brow area. For this, there are two distinct procedures that are known to dramatically reduce aging in the area – a brow lift and blepharoplasty.
A brow lift is much the way it sounds. It can use both surgical and non-surgical means to lift the skin on your forehead and around the eyes upwards to dramatically reduce sagging and wrinkles in the area. Blepharoplasty, or eyelid repair, has a similar effect that can reduce sagging eyelids and wrinkles in your under-eye area. However, it is not so much about “which procedure is best?” but rather “which procedure is right for your needs?”
Complimentary Procedures
Often instead of choosing one or the other, brow lifts and blepharoplasty are done together because they are highly complementary procedures. The brow lift can help reduce the amount of wrinkles around your eyes in the brow area by lifting the skin upwards while blepharoplasty can help clean up any other sagging in the eye lid area.
Typically choosing one or the other is the result from having more problems in one area than the other. If you don’t really have sagging eyelids but have brow creases that you don’t like, then obviously you will only want a brow lift. However, if you don’t have brow wrinkles that bother you, but are concerned about your sagging eyelids and wrinkles in the eye area, then you would only want to engage in a blepharoplasty.
Often a brow lift is the preferable option since it can not only clear up any brow wrinkles, but it can also help to lift your upper eye lids, the real problem area around the eye, upwards as well. However, it doesn’t do much for under eye wrinkles. If you are concerned around your brow or eyelid area and wonder if you need one procedure more than the other, or even both, contact us today.
