What happens during double eyelid surgery?
There are two types of double eyelid surgery: incisional and non-incisional. Both types are outpatient procedures that require local anesthetic along with IV sedation or general anesthesia. It’s important to note that although double eyelid surgery is an outpatient procedure, the eyes are typically sensitive afterward, so you’ll need someone to drive you home.
The incisional procedure involves skin separation along a carefully measured and marked double eyelid line. The marked skin is removed, along with the orbicularis oculi muscle. Beneath eyelid skin, fat draping down over the lashes may be lifted to rest upon the new horizontal eyelid arched crease. Skin heals well after closure, and small sutures are removed four to five days afterward.
The non-incisional procedure is also called the “buried suture technique,” and it involves a series of tiny openings in the skin along a carefully measured and marked double eyelid line. Sutures passed through the openings are tightened until they form a crease. These sutures remain beneath the skin. Because they create the arched crease, they are not removed.
What is the recovery like for double eyelid surgery?
The recovery period for both incisional and non-incisional double eyelid surgery is rapid with return to work in days. Tinted glasses are the norm for two to three weeks. Swelling may be dramatic for one to two weeks, then subsides over months. Most are presentable at conversational distance in two to three weeks, maybe sooner if you’re distancing or working by videoconference. Cold compresses and specialized eyedrops and ophthalmic lubricating ointment are supplied by Dr. Laverson and help relieve dryness and irritation which are expected during recovery.
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