How Aging Affects Your Eyelids
The stresses of work, school, family duties, and other responsibilities can make you age much faster. One of the first areas of your body to show the effects of aging is your face, which has thin and sensitive skin. This is especially true of your eyelids. Usually, people notice wrinkles on and around their eyelids before anything else. The structures holding up your thin and delicate eyelids weaken over time, causing them to droop and puffiness can also develop from fat shifting out of place. This is how aging affects your eyelids, but there are a few ways to slow the process or address changes.
How Aging Affects Your Eyelids
In this post, we will explore some prominent effects of aging on the eyelids. You can also learn about the biggest benefits of eyelid surgery (including upper blepharoplasty, lower blepharoplasty, and ptosis repair), laser resurfacing, botulinum toxin injections, filler injections and a skin care routine as treatments for to address age related changes. At Raleigh Eye and Face Plastic Surgery, we provide complete customized treatment options for people who want to experience internal and external rejuvenation.
Aging and the Skin
The skin contains many different components that keep it healthy over time. Elastin, for example, is what keeps the skin tight. Collagen also helps your skin retain its elasticity leading to a healthy and smooth appearance Your skin will produce fewer and fewer of these essential proteins as you get older which results in aged appearance. Wrinkles begin to develop as the skin quality fades with age.
Plus, years of smiling and squinting can lead to muscle contraction. This forms permanent creases that show up on the surface of your skin. Softening muscle contractions with botulinum toxin injections may help in many cases.
Identifying Wrinkles and Fine Lines
If you are interested treatments to prevent or address age related changes, we can set you up with a cosmetic consultation with Dr. Mettu, our oculoplastic surgeon.
Some of the common age related changes that Dr. Mettu addresses include:
Crow’s feet
Fine lines
Sun spots or discoloration
Glabella wrinkles or frown lines
Thin and thick wrinkles that form across the eyelids
Sagging or drooping skin on the eyelids and surrounding areas
Puffiness from fat in the lower eyelids
Forehead lines
Drooping eyelids
With the right kind of treatment, you can prevent or improve age related changes.
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