The surgeon looks at your case and confirms the price, so you know it before you book.
Start by sending a coordinator a few photos, and discuss your questions online. The first consultation is free and without obligation, and you decide on surgery only afterwards.
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You and the surgeon choose together at the consultation, after your lids are examined. The operation may involve the upper lids, the lower lids, or both in one go, and the incision is placed differently depending on the approach.
Upper blepharoplasty
Incision in the natural eyelid crease
Price at consultation
Main goal
Remove excess skin of the upper lids
Best suited when
Lids feel heavy, or skin folds rest on the lashes
Approach
Scar is hidden in the crease when the eye is open
Lower blepharoplasty
Incision below the lash line or inside the lid
Price at consultation
Main goal
Treat under-eye bags and loose lower-lid skin
Best suited when
There is puffiness, or loose skin under the eyes
Approach
Inside-the-lid approach has no skin incision, for fat
Please treat the description of the methods as general. Surgery extent and recovery are individual to each patient, and your surgeon confirms both after examining you.
The surgeon uses the consultation to build a plan for your case, explaining each step as they go.
When surgery is not needed for your concern, the surgeon will be honest about it. The operation comes into consideration only if it suits your health and goals.
Suitable
Heavy or drooping upper eyelids
Eyes that look tired or smaller than you feel
Skin folds resting on the lashes
Narrowed upper field of vision from skin folds
Puffiness or bags under the eyes
Loose skin of the lower eyelids
A wish for a calmer, more rested look
Not suitable
Uncontrolled high blood pressure or diabetes
Blood clotting disorders
Severe dry-eye disease
Active eye or skin infection
Unstable thyroid eye disease
Serious heart or lung disease
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or under 18
Not sure which column applies to you?
Photos can be sent to a coordinator through Telegram or WhatsApp. The surgeon looks at them and offers an opinion, and you are not committing to surgery by doing so.
You will know what comes next at every point, because each stage is explained in advance and you know who to ask.
1
Online consultation and plan
After you send photos, you speak with the surgeon online. What you want is discussed together, and the surgeon sketches out a plan for either upper lids, lower lids, or both.
2
Choosing and booking the date
Once you have the confirmed plan and price, you decide on a date that fits you. Whatever the hour, a coordinator can answer questions and help with arrangements.
3
Pre-operative preparation and tests
The surgeon looks at your medical history and medicines, then an eye assessment, photographs and standard tests are carried out. Blood-thinning medicines and supplements are stopped only when the surgeon says so, and you should stop smoking as advised.
4
The operation
Anaesthesia is either local with sedation or general, and the surgeon and anaesthetist choose which. In the operation, the surgeon removes excess skin and, where needed, moves or removes small amounts of fat.
5
The first hours and days
Normal after surgery are swelling and bruising around the eyes. Cold compresses help, as does sleeping with the head raised, and staying overnight is decided case by case.
6
Recovery and follow-up
Swelling settles over the first couple of weeks, and stitches, if not dissolving, are usually removed within the first week. The surgeon schedules follow-up checks, while the final contour settles over several months.
The consultation is where the surgeon explains to you how your own operation would go.
Contact a coordinator through Telegram or WhatsApp and share a few photos; the surgeon will review your case online and outline a plan. The first consultation is free and entails no obligation.
The operation removes excess skin; small amounts of fat may be repositioned or removed where needed, and muscle is sometimes tightened. Anaesthesia is either local with sedation or general, as the surgeon and anaesthetist decide.
Expect swelling and bruising, which are normal and ease over the first couple of weeks. Many people go back to desk work within one to two weeks. As advised, keep away from contact lenses, eye make-up, strenuous exercise and heavy lifting; how you recover is individual.
In upper blepharoplasty the incision lies in the natural eyelid crease, so the scar is hidden when the eye is open. Lower-lid incisions are just below the lash line, or inside the lid with no skin incision.
The surgeon sets out the risks for you before surgery. Temporary dryness or irritation of the eyes, bruising, asymmetry, infection and scarring are among them, and rarely there are changes in vision or difficulty closing the eyes fully.
Surgery may not be suitable, or may need clearing first, if you have uncontrolled high blood pressure or diabetes, a clotting disorder, severe dry-eye disease, an active infection, unstable thyroid eye disease or serious heart or lung disease, or if you are pregnant or under 18.
Settling of the final contour takes several months. The result lasts a long time, yet natural ageing continues. Brow and cheek lifting, removal of pigmentation dark circles and erasing of fine wrinkles are outside what the operation does.
It varies with the scope of surgery, such as upper, lower or both lids, and with the anaesthesia chosen. Before you book, and after the surgeon's assessment, the price is confirmed.
Who considers blepharoplasty? Usually people whose upper lids look heavy or droop, whose lower lids show puffiness, or whose lower-lid skin has loosened. If you are in Lyon and one of these describes you, the surgeon can explain what the operation can change. It is eyelid surgery only, and the plan is made individually.
From Lyon you can do the first step entirely online: photographs, a conversation and your questions. The surgeon confirms which lids should be treated and how. Local anaesthesia with sedation or general anaesthesia is chosen individually, and an overnight stay is decided case by case. Recovery is gradual, and the final contour settles over several months.
You do not have to commit to anything to ask questions. Patients in Lyon can message a coordinator on Telegram or WhatsApp at any time, and the first consultation is free. After the surgeon has examined your details and confirmed the plan, you are told the price, and only then do you decide whether to book.