Swelling After Suture Removal Following Double Eyelid Surgery: Curious

Interest in beauty seems to be no different now than it was before, but over the past 10 or so years, smartphones have become fully widespread, and SNS such as Instagram and Facebook, where people share their current lives along with photos, has become popular. As a result, people came to realize that eyes that look bigger make the whole face look more beautiful. No one takes photos with sleepy-looking eyes, so everyone tries to open their eyes as widely and clearly as possible when taking pictures.

For people who do not have double eyelids and whose eyelid-opening strength is not very good, their eyes do not look large no matter how wide they open them. So, more and more people are having double eyelid surgery or canthoplasty to look better in photos.

The biggest concern with double eyelid surgery is how long the recovery period will be after the procedure. It may not matter much for people who are not especially embarrassed about having had surgery, but most people do not want others to see their swelling and bruising after surgery. That is why they become curious about swelling after double eyelid surgery or #swellingaftersutureremovalfollowingdoubleeyelidsurgery.

For #burieddoubleeyelidswelling, the swelling noticeably subsides 2 to 3 days after surgery. For #incisiondoubleeyelidswelling, the swelling begins to go down after about a week. Buried methods usually settle into place in 1 to 2 weeks, while incision methods vary from person to person but usually settle in one or two months, and the final natural look appears only after 6 months to 1 year.

It is generally believed that swelling goes down faster once the stitches are removed, but in fact the stitches themselves do not have much effect on swelling. This misunderstanding likely comes from the fact that the timing when swelling begins to go down and the timing for removing stitches after buried or incision methods happen to match. That is because, in most cases, even if someone cannot come to remove the stitches at the one-week mark and only comes after a month, the swelling has already gone down by then.