ABSTRACT
CHEMICAL BLEPHAROPLASTY Introduction Surgical blepharoplasty is a technique that has become progressively easier as it has been removed from the strict framework of surgery requiring hospitalization. Once performed readily under general anesthesia, it soon was performed under local anesthesia combined with neuroleptanalgesia, then deep sedation, and is now often done under simple local anesthesia with lidocaine. Lip & Eyelid Formula allows treatment without any kind of anesthesia. Surgical blepharoplasty, when performed by a skilled surgeon, should give excellent results that last several years, after which patients go back to the doctor as they are no longer happy with the results. A second blepharoplasty is then performed, and the results are no different from the previous results. It is common to come across patients who have “benefited” from three successive surgical blepharoplasties over 15 years. The cosmetic results of multiple surgical blepharoplasties are not always of good quality, and patients who have been operated on too often are as easy to spot as patients with rotation-flap hair transplants or large cylindrical punch grafts.
