Our eyes tell stories. But as we grow older, people can often become less comfortable with their message. In the outer areas, the appearance of excess skin, dark circles, puffiness, wrinkles or recesses are signs to others that we’re looking tired, aged and lacklustre; even though that’s not how we feel inside.
‘Tired-looking eyes’ is the single biggest frustration that drives patients through my doors for the first time. And, in approximately two-thirds of these cases, the most bothersome region is the lower lid. But for the remaining third – still a sizeable number – the issue impacting their self-image is the upper eyelids, sometimes in combination with the lower.
The treatments I administer here will usually address flattened brows, upper eyelid hollows, A-frame deformities, eyelid asymmetries or folds in the upper eyelid crease caused by volume depletion. Where surgical intervention…
