BLEPHAROPLASTY (Eyelid surgery)

This surgical procedure consists on removing some excess skin and muscle from the eyelids, both superior and inferior. Some fatty tissues are also removed. This surgery improves lax skin, gives it firmness , corrects “bags” in the eyelids, and could also improve sight in old people, by lifting the upper eyelid, which sometimes obstructs vision. It can create a fold in the upper eyelid of Asian patients , but can’t help change racial or ethnic features.

This procedure doesn’t eliminate “crow’s foot wrinkles “ or other wrinkles nearby. It can’t remove dark circles around the eyes. It is not practiced to raise fallen eyebrows.

Eyelids surgery is often designed to meet the needs of each patient. It can be done at superior or inferior eyelids, or both of them. The procedure can be combined with other surgeries such as eyes, face, eyebrows , and nose surgeries. It can not stop the aging process, but can give firmness to the skin, and eliminate “bags” in the eyelids zone.

BOTOX

Type A Botulism toxin is one of seven toxins produced by Clostridium Botulinum, and is synthesized for medical purposes at laboratories. This toxin produces a temporary paralysis in the muscle that is injected with it.
The toxin has been widely used for treatment of neurological spastic illnesses, and has been very recently used for treatment of facial wrinkles. Muscles of the face are in charge of the expression of our emotions (anger, joy, sadness…). These muscles are located just beneath the skin, and are responsible for the different grins. But their continued use in time makes different parts of the face clearly marked and wrinkled, even when muscles are not used. The most common expression wrinkles are the ones in the forehead, due to the frontal muscle, the wrinkles in the space between eyebrows, due to the corrugator muscles, and crow´s –foot wrinkles near the eye, due to the orbicular muscle