[LARI Plastic Surgery] The Best Time for Double-Eyelid Revision Surgery: Before and After Removing an Incisional Double-Eyelid Line One Year After Surgery

People who visit the clinic for consultations about double-eyelid revision surgery

can be broadly divided into three groups.

The first group consists of people who come in very worried while experiencing significant swelling in the very early stages after surgery.

The second group consists of people who, more than ten years after surgery, feel that they can no longer put it off and need to undergo another procedure.

The third group consists of people who have waited approximately 6 months to 1 year after surgery but still feel that correction is necessary.

For those in the first situation, it is generally best to wait.

Because this is a period accompanied by considerable swelling, unless there is a problem that requires immediate correction or one that can be identified and corrected early,

there is no need to intervene, as doing so is unlikely to improve the situation.

Many people in the second group are in a state where they can compromise even if they are not completely satisfied with the results, or where it was too difficult to take time away from work to undergo another procedure.

They visit because so much time has passed that their skin has sagged and they feel they can no longer leave things as they are.

The best time for revision surgery is the third situation: approximately 6 months to 1 year after the initial surgery.

By this point, the swelling from the previous surgery has completely subsided and the eyes have settled into place. Although it is fine to wait longer,

at least this much time should pass for the eyes to be in a suitable condition for revision surgery.

Waiting this long can allow differences between the two eyes to become more balanced during recovery,

and the previously thick double-eyelid line may become more natural as the swelling subsides.

This patient had incisional double-eyelid surgery along with eye-opening surgery one year earlier.

The line was higher than expected, and the eyes tended to appear slightly too open.

However, she waited approximately one year for the swelling from the previous surgery to subside and for the eyes to settle before visiting the clinic for correction.

She was ready to undergo surgery, and because she wanted the double-eyelid line to be naturally invisible,

she underwent surgery to remove the double-eyelid line.

This type of surgery can also involve considerable swelling during the early postoperative period,

which may cause concern that something went wrong.

However, with this surgery as well, it is best to allow approximately 6 months to 1 year and observe the progress so that the results can fully settle.

One year after the initial surgery, she had not achieved the result she wanted.

However, as mentioned above, after allowing an appropriate recovery period,

6 months after revision surgery (double-eyelid removal),

she achieved the desired result of natural monolids and was satisfied with the outcome.