A look back at eye surgery five years earlier
My mid-50s girlfriends got together last week for dinner—something we’ve been doing for nearly 30 years every couple of months. It had been half a year since I’d been able to join them and while this is a group of women that’s healthily interested in keeping up their looks, I could see a lot of difference—more wrinkles, deeper frown lines, dull complexions. It caused me to take a good hard look at myself in the mirror the next morning and while there’s plenty more I could elect to do for myself, I’m thoroughly pleased that four years ago I underwent a blepharoplasty in Dr. Raval’s care.
As Dr. Raval pointed out to me then, the eyes are the first place on the face to give up our age as a rule. My eyes had begun to have thicker lids, and when I smiled for family photographs, my eyes then looked more like narrow slits than the eyes I had as a much younger woman.
Besides the blepharoplasty for upper eyelid surgery, Dr. Raval performed an under-eye surgery to re-build the wall of fat under my eye that had in the course of aging drooped, allowing my lower eyelids to show slight bags on most mornings. Five years later, my eyes are the youngest looking part about me when I get up in the morning. I don’t have any of the “cat-eye” look that some of my acquaintances seem to have after their eye surgeries either, and I’m so glad for Dr. Raval’s skill as a surgeon. He explained to me prior to my lower eyelid surgery that the cat-eye look is a matter of technique versus more than anything else. One of my friends had surgery performed by an eye doctor who advised her to forego the under-eyelid surgery because the cat-eye look would be the result. She now says she’s disappointed that she didn’t go ahead with the under-eyelid surgery by Dr. Raval instead.
It’s amazing to me after five years time that the eyes-wide-open look that blepharoplasty can afford me is still as becoming as it was a month after surgery.
This is a procedure I would never regret and will recommend to anyone who asks!
–Mid-50s and seeing clearly.
To make a consultation appointment with Dr. Jeffrey R. Raval, triple-board certified facial plastic surgeon, call 303-744-2300. Dr. Raval has practices in Denver and Lone Tree, Colorado.