Professor Ben Miranda performs both upper and lower blepharoplasty, eyelid reduction surgery, eye lift surgery and eye bag removal surgery. Upper blepharoplasty involves removing the excess upper eyelid tissue under local anaesthetic, adjusting the underlying muscle and removing excess fat that is bulging and contributing to the upper eyelid bags; an extremely fine suture is then used to stitch the skin together and is subsequently removed at 7 days. While all surgery results in scars, they usually start to fade early at 2-4 weeks following upper eyelid blepharoplasty, during which time they becomes less noticeable and easy to conceal with make-up; in general, most of the scarring is not immediately visible with your eyes open. In many cases the scarring becomes hardly noticeable by 3 months post-operatively and continues to fade even further after this point. Professor Ben Miranda performs lower eyelid blepharoplasty under sedation or general anaesthetic, hiding most of the incisions inside the lower eyelid, then either removing or re-draping any bulging fat to smooth out the appearance of lower eyelid bags. Following your blepharoplasty surgery, you will need to wear a cool-gel mask at night and sleep propped up for several weeks to help rapidly reduce any post-operative swelling.