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COSMETIC BROW LIFTS & FOREHEAD LIFT
Whether age or heredity causes these conditions, a forehead lift or (brow lift) can give you a more youthful, animated and alert appearance. Also slight changes in the height of your eyebrows can have major effects on your apparent age and remarkable affect on how your eyes appear. Many women pluck or wax their eyebrows in order to change the height of their brow. A high arched eyebrow is a sign of youth and can highlight your eyes and draw attention to them. A droopy eyebrow can hood your eyelids, draw attention away from your eyes, and is more typical of the male brow.
Deep furrows on the forehead, frown lines over the eyes, drooping eyebrows and hood-like skin over the eyes are all conditions that can make you look older than you are or feel.
In men, the natural position of the eyebrow is slightly lower than women. This causes less leeway before droopy eyebrows affect the upper eyelids and not only draw attention away from the eyes, but may interfere with your peripheral vision. There are increasingly more men interested in facial plastic surgery today. Care is taken not to elevate the eyebrows too much since too high an eyebrow can be feminizing.
FOREHEAD LIFT
The standard forehead lift, recommended for severe age-related forehead and eyebrow problems, is performed through an incision in the hairline of the forehead. The operation takes about two hours, and may be performed with you awake with intravenous sedation or completely asleep under general anesthesia. At the end of the surgery, small sutures and surgical staples are placed to close the incision. These are removed in seven to ten days. A small plastic drain is used to remove any accumulated blood overnight, and is removed the next day in the office. You are able to go home the same day as surgery.
If your eyebrow or forehead problem is not too severe, then perhaps you would be a good candidate for endoscopic surgery of the forehead. Through five or six small incisions in the scalp, the deep grooves can be improved and the eyebrows raised. The doctors of New York Oculoplastic and Reconstruction Surgery will be happy to discuss this procedure in detail during your initial consultation.
Alternatively, a modest brow lift, eyebrow reshaping or brow stabilization can approached through a ‘hidden' incision of the upper eyelid. This can be combined with blepharoplasty techniques to give dramatic results.
THE RECOVERY
OTHER OPTIONS
If your forehead grooves are not too deep, or you wish to discuss non-surgical improvements, then perhaps Botox® Cosmetic (Botulinum Toxin) injections or chemical peels might be for you. These are further discussed under (Non-Surgical Procedures).
However, the most effective treatment to insure your desired results is best left to the doctors of New York Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery. They will be certain to provide the most effective answer for you.