Ocular aesthetics
Ocular aesthetics involves the use of cosmetic treatments to improve the appearance of the eyes and surrounding tissues.
The services offered by this speciality are vital not only for enhanced appearance of your eyes but may also play an important role in the functioning of the eyes.
Areas that can be treated cosmetically around the eyes
1. Dark Circles: They are partially the result of blood pooling in the veins underneath the thin under-eye skin. These give you a tired look.
2. Wrinkles and Expression lines around the Eyes: This includes the Forehead lines, frown lines (area between the eyes), Crow’s feet (wrinkles and fine lines that form around the outer corners of the eyes), Glabella region (skin between the eyebrows and above the nose), Under eye lines and bunny lines that get formed either due to age or due to repeated facial expressions.crow’s feet and eyebrows.
3. Eye Bags:
These form either due to collection of fluid or fat in the tissue beneath the lower lid or due to increased downward pressure created by drooping eyebrows around the upper eyelids.
4. Dry Eyes: The integration of ocular aesthetics into the realm of ophthalmology significantly influenced by the approval of intense pulsed light (IPL) therapy for the treatment of dry eye due to meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD).IPL has demonstrated its ability to naturally enhance skin tone and appearance. Patients receiving IPL treatment for dry eye frequently observe a reduction or elimination of sun and age spots and improvements in facial and eyelid areas
AESTHETIC PROCEDURES FOR EYES INJECTABLES
BOTOX
It helps in treating wrinkles, blepharospasm (twitching of eyelids) and expression lines around the eyes by relaxing the muscles.
Botox is injected into specific target muscles to limit their movement and thereby soften the lines.
This treatment takes a few days to show improvement in wrinkles, but will wear off within 3-4 months. So, repeat injections may be required.
FILLERS
Dermal fillers are also injectables suited for reducing wrinkles that are present when the face is at rest. They are best suited for under eye dark circles and tired looking eyes.
It helps fill in the volume deficits and contour changes between the eyelids and the cheeks.
It offers a wide range of procedure that require softening of lines, creases and wrinkles.
SURGERY
Blepharoplasty (treatment of eyelid tissue)
The surgery corrects defects, deformities, and disfigurations of the eyelids by eliminating excess skin, muscles and fat from the eyelids.
The surgery is most suited for drooping upper or lower eyelids.
Eyebrow lifts
Corrects the sagging in the skin of the forehead, upper eyelids, crow’s feet and eyebrows.