One of the most common signs of aging is drooping upper eyelids. Most people automatically assume that there is now too much skin in the upper eyes. However, the real problem is not excess skin , but the fact that your brow has now relaxed and crowds the eyes.
Dr. Rodriguez feels that the most natural way to rejuvenate and refresh the eye area is to lift the brow, so that the upper eyelids resume their natural youthful position. When we age, the brow droops such that it crowds down on the upper eyelids. However, instead of reducing the amount of skin covering the upper eye, the most natural way to fix the problem is to raise the brow. This procedure is known as the browlift.
The best way to simulate the effect of the browlift is to to gently push your forehead up with the the palms of both hands. When you lift the brow up, the upper eyelids lift and you looked refreshed!
The browlift is the new eyelift.
The browlift procedure is performed under twilight anesthesia and you can go back to work in one week. The procedure is only 2 hours long and very well tolerated.
Dr. Ricardo Rodriguez has performed hundreds of browlifts over his 20 year career. Dr. Rodriguez is a Yale trained Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who specializes in multiple procedures in the same operative session.
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2 Comments
May 9, 2009 at 10:44 am
“what about women with already pretty high-set brows”
Most people automatically hold up their brows when facing the camera or looking in the mirror. What I do when I look at the patient is to have them close their eyes and then massage the brow to relax it. That gives me the true position of the brow. Most people with “high set brows” really have a hyperactive frontalis muscle keeping the brow elevated. You can check this on your own by sitting in front of a mirror, closing your eyes, massaging your brow down until you feel the brow muscles relaxed. Then hold the index fingers at the midpoint of the brow. Is the brow below, at, or above the brow bone? Keping the fingers in place, open the eyes slowly as you look into the mirror. That will tell you the true brow position.
A few patients do have a naturally elevated brow. This is determined at the time of examination by doing the procedure described above. If there is a true high brow position, then obviously the procedure of choice is upper blepharoplasty.
About men, if anything, I think my original post applies in spades. It is very hard to get the elevation I want in men, so I am extremely comfortable with pulling back when I set the brow, something I never do in women. On the other hand, when a man gets his upper eyelids done, the brow really comes down. Look at the actor Gabriel Byrne in the HBO series “In Treatment” last season vs this season for an illustration of this.
I do do upper blepharoplasties as an initial procedure, but only in cases of true, not frontalis muscle activity high position.
May 9, 2009 at 12:23 am
That definitely makes sense. However, what about women with already pretty high-set brows and men who wouldn’t look right with high eyebrows? I already have looked in the mirror, and I wouldn’t want mine to be any higher. In these cases would you just use upper blepharoplasty?