{"id":23466,"date":"2026-01-02T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/upper-and-lower-blepharoplasty-before-and-after-42-year-old-usa-patients-tired-eye-transformation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:35:20","slug":"upper-and-lower-blepharoplasty-before-and-after-42-year-old-international-patient-tired-eye-transformation","status":"publish","type":"before-after","link":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/plastic-surgery-before-and-after\/upper-and-lower-blepharoplasty-before-and-after-42-year-old-international-patient-tired-eye-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper and Lower Blepharoplasty Before and After: 42-Year-Old USA Patient\u2019s &#8220;Tired Eye&#8221; Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br data-mce-bogus=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":28349,"template":"","meta":{"h1_first_part":"Blepharoplasty Before and After: ","h1_second_part":"42-Year-Old International Patient's Refreshed Upper and Lower Lids","patient_age":"42","patient_country":"USA","primary_concern":"<p>In a client-facing role, this 42-year-old international patient found her eyes conveyed fatigue even when she felt rested. Upper-lid hooding made the eyes look smaller, while lower-lid bags cast a shadow that read as dark circles. She wanted a refreshed, unchanged-looking result, so we planned a combined <a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/blepharoplasty-in-turkey\/\">our blepharoplasty approach<\/a> for both lids.<\/p>","surgeon_approach":"<p>Two principles guided the surgical plan: open the upper gaze and lift the lower shadow, while keeping the eye shape exactly as it was.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Upper and lower correction:<\/strong> We removed conservative upper-lid skin and a little fat to open the gaze, then repositioned the lower fat pads to fill the tear-trough shadow that read as dark circles.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/fat-transfer-to-face-in-turkey\/\">facial fat transfer<\/a> on hand:<\/strong> Where the tear trough needed extra softening, fine fat grafting was available to smooth the lid-cheek junction without overfilling.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/our-technology-standards\/\">Recovery Protocol<\/a>:<\/strong> She completed recovery with <strong>HBOT<\/strong> and <strong>LLLT<\/strong> to limit periorbital bruising before her flight home, the plan we follow for international patients travelling home, Canadians included.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","recovery_timeline":"12 Days"},"before-after-procedures":[191],"before-after-categories":[188],"class_list":["post-23466","before-after","type-before-after","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","before-after-procedures-eyelid-surgery","before-after-categories-facial-plastic-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/23466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/before-after"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/23466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23469,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after\/23466\/revisions\/23469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"before-after-procedures","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-procedures?post=23466"},{"taxonomy":"before-after-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akmclinic.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/before-after-categories?post=23466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}