Quick blog, because this seems like a no brainer to me.
“Assessment of Patient Satisfaction With Appearance, Psychological Well being, and Aging Appraisal after Upper Blepharoplasty: A multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.” This was in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal April 2022.
Study: Prospective study of 2134 patients, assessed pre surgery, at 6 months, and one year.
- Satisfaction in appearance: Eye, upper eyelids, facial appearance overall
- Psychological well being
- Aging appraisal
- They appeared a mean 3.3 years younger after blepharoplasty.
My thoughts?
Upper eyelid surgery is a no brainer. As you age, your excess upper eyelid skin can hood, restrict visual fields (that car came out of nowhere!), make it tiring to read, give eye strain, and give you forehead wrinkles.
Doing upper eyelid surgery does not “change the way you look.” You will look exactly as you do now, just a little more awake and refreshed.
This study is muddied a bit for me- did they do lower eyelids at the same time? Did they do fat grafting? I found the average age reversal of 3 years to be small to me- but again, I don’t know what else they were doing with the surgery or if it was just upper eyelids.
But there is a clear result of the study: patients are happy.