| As if all of these anatomy lessons weren't enough, here comes the physiology?
Don't fret. We fully understand that there's only so much that any potential patient wants to learn about the specifics of what most people simply write off as "aging."
So here's the main point: Aging around eyes (and around most of your other parts, too) is, to a large extent, caused by heredity. Chances are that if you have saggy baggy eyelids, so do your parents and sisters and brothers (and you might want to take a closer look at your darling kids).
Beyond "genes" (which largely influence how much each of the following changes will show up in you), here's the rundown of what happens to just about everybody:
• By your late thirties or early forties, the extremely thin skin of the eyelids starts to lose its elasticity and stretch. In the upper eyelid, this causes the crease to become daped by the overhang. As the collagen in the dermis starts to be lost, the epidermis comes to exist in "relative excess" and wrinkles and crow's feet appear in those parts of the eyelids that move the most.
Thinning of the skin may cause an "unveiling" of the underlying oribtal fat, even without . . . |
