| The number of blepharoplasties performed annually in the United States has more than doubled in the past four years for many reasons:
Well-performed cosmetic eyelid surgery yields a natural-appearing enhancement of the most important feature of the face (your eyes!) without breaking the bank or putting you out-of-commission for many months at a time. In the hands of a skilled surgeon, the operation is quite safe relative to other plastic surgery procedures. Recovery is relatively painless, and the improvement is long-lasting.
Still, not every person will be delighted with the outcome. Some, of course, may experience true surgical complications, a subject discussed elsewhere. Those people aside, however, there are others who by all objective measures have undergone technically and aesthetically proficient surgery but remain unhappy. Such people tend to fall into several categories:
• patients who chose surgery to look naturually fresher but then could only visualize the expected result as "different"
• patients who really hoped to look different instead of fresher but did not attain that unattainable fantasy state
• patients who expected their eyelids to look like . . . |
