Plastic eye surgery

1. Blefarochalasis: This is more typically called ‘the bags’ on the upper and lower eyelid. These bags appear due to the age related relaxation of the skin and tissues and fat around the eye.
   It can be treated surgically by reducing the quantity of fat and skin around the eye. This surgery is performed ambulant and under local anaesthesia.
   This wound is stitched and after a week they are removed without leaving any kind of scar.
    
2. Ptosis of the upper eyelid: This means lower hanging of the upper eyelid. The reasons are various: 70% come from birth.
   Ptosis can be treated surgically, and the technique used depends on the underlying cause of the ptosis and the rest function of the muscle. This technique is ambulant and under local anaesthesia. For children however, a general anaesthesia is used.