What should you know about hooded eyelid removal?

Dermatochalasis is extra upper-eyelid skin that can drape over the crease. Fat, brow descent or eyelid muscle weakness may also affect the appearance, so removing skin alone is not suitable for everyone. Eyelid surgery, also called blepharoplasty, may reshape selected skin, muscle or fat under a personalised plan.

Non-surgical treatments such as plasma pen treatment and radiofrequency skin tightening may tighten superficial skin but do not provide the same tissue removal as surgery. Sagging skin elsewhere on the face can be considered separately.

Have your vision, eyelid movement, brow position, dry-eye symptoms and ability to close the eyes assessed. Share your health history, allergies, medicines and previous eye treatments. Ask where scars will sit, how asymmetry will be managed, what support you need at home and how long swelling may affect reading, work or driving.

Follow the clinic’s instructions for cleansing and medication. Protect healing skin from rubbing and strong sunlight. Do not restart or stop prescribed medicines without specific medical advice.

Get prompt advice for worsening swelling, redness, discharge, fever, increasing pain or a wound that opens. Urgent assessment is needed for vision change, severe eye pain, new double vision, inability to close the eye or sudden facial weakness.

Is excess skin the main cause of my hooding? What tissue would you treat? Could the procedure affect dry eye or eye closure? Which non-surgical options are realistic? What symptoms after treatment should trigger an urgent call?