Brow Lift Before And After Photos

You’ll visit Dr Hunt within the first week of your surgery. At this stage, Dr Hunt will remove and sutures or staples. You will then have follow up visits at six weeks, six months and 12 months.

You should plan on taking seven to 10 days off work to allow a full recovery.

An eyebrow lift lasts 10-12 years before needing revision. The procedure reverses the signs of ageing, however, it does not stop the ageing process. The skin will continue to lax and the eyebrows will drop again in a decade or more. However, you can get a second brow lift to restore the results when you need it.

The best age to get a brow lift is between 40 and 60. By this age, some patients will have droopy eyebrows and want them fixed.

A brow lift can be done using botulinum toxin. However, that’s called a non-surgical brow lift. Anti-wrinkle injections will relax the forehead muscles and allow your eyebrows to move back up. However, non-surgical eyebrow lifts are temporary and require re-injection in 4-6 months.

A mini brow lift is another term used to refer to the transpalpebral brow lift. It’s considered a “mini” procedure since it is minimally invasive – even less invasive than endoscopic brow lift. It specifically targets the outer third of your eyebrows and lifts it back up into position. It’s done in combination with eyelid lift (blepharoplasty) and through the same wound.

Yes, many times a brow lift can widen your eyes and pull the eyelids up along with the eyebrows. However, many patients need an additional blepharoplasty (eyelid lift) to specifically target the eyelids. Eyelid lift and brow lift can be combined together and performed through the same incisions (transpalpebral brow lift).

Yes. Most brow lifts will improve the wrinkles around your eyes (crow’s feet). However, sometimes fillers and chemical peeling might be additionally needed to complement the results.

A brow lift is an invasive surgery. The endoscopic brow lift, however, is less invasive compared to the traditional open forehead lift.

Our surgeons perform subtle changes to ensure that the brows are lifted in the most natural-looking way possible.

A brow lift can widen your eyes. So, yes, in a way, a brow lift can change the appearance of the eyes.

Like any other surgery, an eyebrow lift is also associated with some surgical risks. Complications only rarely take place, and they might include:

• Bleeding
• Wound infection
• Excessive scarring
• Seroma formation (fluid collection)
• Hematoma formation (blood collection)
• Numbness in parts of the scalp
• Retracted hairline
• Nerve damage

To reduce the risks of brow lift complications, you should choose a plastic surgeon that has extensive experience in performing facial procedures. Our surgeons, Dr Hunt and Dr Maryam, have performed hundreds of facial procedures over the years.

• Transpalpebral eyebrow lift: the mini eyebrow lift
• How to Perform an Endoscopic Forehead and Eyebrow Lift – American Academy of Ophthalmology
• Endoscopic Brow Lift – StatPearls – NCBI Bookshelf
• Endoscopic brow lift: a personal review of 538 patients and comparison of fixation techniques
• A retrospective comparison of open and endoscopic brow-lifts