Eye Lift Without Surgery

Introduction

The eyes are the light to the body. It means healthy eyes can provide abundant light and energy to the whole body. Healthy eyes are free of infection and injuries, but skin elasticity is also believed to play a role. As a person ages, the body undergoes many changes from inside and outside.

The eyes are the first organ to show signs of aging. As a person ages, the skin's elasticity is lost, resulting in sagging skin. When it occurs around the eye, it gives the eyes a droopy appearance. Droopy eye's appearance can be due to droopy brows, droopy eyelids, or droopy skin between the brow and lid.

This becomes a cosmetic concern in many people, and treating the condition becomes a priority to prevent further sagging and drooping. Thus, many surgical and non-surgical treatments are available which give excellent results. This article will discuss the non-surgical procedures available to treat drooping eyes.

How Does an Eye Appear While Aging?

As a person ages, they will notice changes in their eyes and around them. They are:

• The skin around the eyes will wrinkle, and bags will occur around the eyes. Eye bags are puffiness or a mild swelling seen below the lower eyelids. It could be due to one of the following reasons - weakening of the muscle and tissues of the eye, fluid accumulation, and accumulation of fats used to support the eye structure. Wrinkles are the folds of the skin caused due to old age and increased sun exposure.

• Dark circles are very common in aged people. Increasing age will make the skin lose elasticity since fat and collagen are lost. Due to this, the skin becomes thin and pigmented, causing dark circles.

How to Do Eye Lifts Non-Surgically?

For droopy eyelids and brows, eye lift procedures can be done to rectify it cosmetically. An eye lift procedure gives a lifted appearance to the eyes. Non-surgical or non-invasive eye-lifting procedures include:

• Botox: Botox is done to treat wrinkles, droopy appearance, and fine lines. Botox is a drug obtained from a bacterial organism called Clostridium botulinum. This drug is safe to be used in small quantities. The injection of botox into the site causes the muscle to relax and treat conditions like wrinkles, fine lines, and drooping skin. As a result, it will give a healthy appearance. These Botox injections will stay for a few months (three to 12 months) and should be redone once the effect subsides. This procedure will cause side effects like swelling, bruising, and pain, eventually subside. Flu and headache can also be seen in some cases. Botox procedure is not recommended for women who are pregnant and nursing.

• Dermal Fillers: Another method to do eye lifts is using dermal fillers. Dermal fillers are skin fillers to treat droopy eyelids and wrinkles. These fillers will be injected into the skin to give fullness and puffiness. It also provides a smoother look. Hyaluronic acid, calcium hydroxylapatite, and polylactic acid are dermal fillers. These fillers provide fullness and a smoother look for a few months, after which the procedure has to be redone. These procedures cause side effects like redness, itching, swelling, and bruising, which will resolve in some time.

• Platelet-Rich Plasma: Plasma is the liquid content of the blood and occupies most of the space as the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Plasma comprises water (higher content), proteins, and salts. Plasma is a yellowish liquid transporting nutrients, hormones, and proteins to various body parts. Platelets are essential for blood clotting.

This platelet-rich plasma procedure involves injecting platelet-rich plasma into the skin for rejuvenation to give it a younger look. This procedure collects blood from the patient and centrifuges (a centrifugal force separates the fluid components) to extract the plasma from the blood. Then the site to be treated with platelet-rich plasma is numbed, and then the platelet-rich plasma will be injected into the site. The injected platelet-rich plasma will produce growth factors that will rejuvenate (repair and renew) the skin.

Patients preparing for platelet-rich plasma treatment should avoid taking medications like Aspirin and Ibuprofen. The treatment will cause soreness and blistering and resolve in a few days.

• Ultherapy: Ultherapy is a non-invasive eye lift procedure. It is done using ultrasound to stimulate the collagen present at the site of concern, thus tightening the skin. It is comparatively a more lengthy procedure and takes a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of one and a half hours. The procedure does not require anesthesia or a numbing gel. It is done by delivering ultrasound waves to the targeted site, where new collagen formation will be stimulated, and thus, the skin becomes tight and youthful.

Tingling sensations and redness can be seen post-treatment and will subside in some time. Ultherapy results are believed to last longer than the dermal fillers.

• Laser Resurfacing Therapy: Laser resurfacing therapy is the most effective way to tighten the skin around the eyes and smoothen the wrinkles and fine lines. Ablative lasers are used in this procedure, which means the laser will remove the thin outer layer and heat the lower layer to produce enough collage to make the skin firm. The outer layer will eventually grow back. The only disadvantage is that the procedure will cause redness of the site, which will take up to ten days to resolve.

• Non-Surgical Blepharoplasty: This procedure is performed with injectable fillers to refill and rejuvenate the area around the eyes. Non-surgical blepharoplasty addresses wrinkles, fine lines, dark circles, hollows, and under-eye bags to give a person a youthful appearance. Unlike the conventional blepharoplasty, this procedure is non-invasive and does not require any surgery.

Conclusion:

All the procedures mentioned above are proven to have good results with eye lifts and smoothen wrinkles and fine lines. However, surgical procedures can be costly and time-consuming. People looking for cheaper and great results can opt for non-surgical procedures. Consulting with a specialist doctor is necessary to choose a suitable mode of treatment.