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Discuss the desired results with the surgeon and share your expectations. Tell your doctor if you are taking any medicines or have allergies, vision disorders or suffer from certain diseases.

An upper eye-lid lift surgery can be done alone or with other facial procedures, such as a lower eye-lid lift, brow lift or whole facial lift. The local or general anaesthesia is applied during the upper eyelid surgery.

Special care Right after the surgery special cold applications are applied on the eyes to reduce haemorrhages and swelling. Cooling should be continued additionally for one day more. If you use contact lenses, don't put them in for about few weeks after surgery If you experience pain, it is recommended to take pain killers prescribed by your doctor Healing and scaring Healing of surgical wounds will take 2-3 weeks. Haemorrhages usually disappear in few weeks; however, swelling can persist for a little bit longer. Because of swelling it can be difficult to close the eyelids and eye pain can develop. Such discomfort can be controlled by the artificial tears. The scars after upper eyelid blepharoplasty are hardly visible as they disappear among the facial wrinkles. Active physical activities Physical activity should be avoided for one months after the surgery, do not exercise sports and do not attend saunas. Wear protecting sunglasses to avoid the exposure to sunshine.

If the surgery was done applying a local anaesthesia, patients usually are discharged on the next day after the surgery If the general anaesthesia was applied or several facial corrections were made, the decision regarding patient’s discharge is taken individually.

The recovery after the upper eye-lid blepharoplasty takes about 2-3 weeks, however, more expressive sight is visible right after the surgery.

The upper eyelid blepharoplasty in our clinic costs from 1100 EUR

No, you will not experience any pain during the surgery. During the first days after the surgery, you can experience pain of different severity. If you experience severe discomfort it is recommended to take pain killers prescribed by your doctor.

Active physical activities and sports should be avoided for at least one month after the surgery.