Natural Brow Lift & Forehead Lift Surgery in Harley Street, London

Dr De Silva uses a myriad of surgical techniques taken from his experience in London, Los Angeles and New York. For the forehead, eyebrows and upper eyelids the removal the exact amount of soft tissues and lifting is required to ensure harmony between the two eyes and natural looking result.

Dr De Silva is known for natural looking results and brow and forehead lifting techniques require complete customisation to the individual patient.

Dr De Silva uses only state-of-the-art technology to give patients the best possible results, including the latest in high technology 3D telescopic imageing and surgical equipment.

Dr De Silva uses hidden incision techniques for most patients that result in fast recovery, less downtime and natural looking results. Often brow lifting is used in conjunction with other facial procedures to improve the result:

Upper Blepharoplasty involves the removal of excess upper eyelid soft tissues (skin, muscle laxity and fat bags) to improve the upper eyelid rejuvenation
Volume augmentation with techniques including fat transfer
Wrinkle injection for reduction of dynamic lines associated with facial expression
Skin resurfacing. Facial ageing often results in sun and environmental damage to the skin surrounding the eyelids. Resurfacing the skin results in a natural rejuvenation by reducing crepe skin, pigment spots and pore size
Facelift or neck lift surgery

The recovery from forehead lifting is dependent on the technique used. Traditional techniques such as a coronal brow lift had a long recovery period. Dr De Silva utilises modern techniques such as Telescopic camera lifting where the recovery is between 1-2 weeks.

Most patients have minimal discomfort after the procedure that settles within 24-48 hours with oral analgesia. The recovery period can be reduced with the use of ice packs (bag of peas in a zipper container) every hour while awake for the first three days, resulting in a reduction in the amount of postoperative swelling.

All patients will have some numbness in the forehead after the procedure, by using the hidden incision endoscopic techniques this is reduced, and improves after around 6-weeks and may be accompanied by some temporary itchiness.

Usually, the patient may return to normal non-strenuous activities 1 week after the procedure and by 2 weeks the forehead and eyelids are on average 90% improved. Initially, the eyebrows may be higher after surgery and then the eyebrows lower to their normal height, the final result is between 6-12months after surgery.

Most patients that develop a droopy brow will notice these changes from the 30s onwards. However drooping of the eyebrow and forehead results from a combination of facial ageing and genetics, and in some people, a droopy eyebrow may occur earlier in your 20s as a consequence of your genetics and facial anatomy.

It would be important to evaluate the appearance of your eyes to exclude other causes of upper eyelid fullness including ptosis (droopy eyelid), facial nerve weakness or other congenital conditions that require a specialist assessment and treatment.

Age is not a limiting factor to have a forehead lift, as long as an assessment has been completed and the forehead lift is the optimal procedure.

The natural shape and position of the male brow are markedly different from the female brow. A man’s brow is commonly positioned lower than the female brow, at or even slightly below the orbital rim.

The male brow may or may not be arched laterally, and is commonly relatively flat. Each man needs to be independently evaluated for their facial changes to ensure a natural-looking rejuvenation.

Conservative lifting is required to avoid over lifting the male brow which can change a man’s appearance, sometimes seen in actors who look to have a changed appearance following plastic surgery.

Men have other considerations such as loss of hair that are of key importance in procedure planning with a hidden incision. Endoscopic forehead lifting has a role in specific patients, other techniques such as trans-blepharoplasty brow lifting (brow lift through a blepharoplasty incision) and direct brow lifting have a role in specific patients.

The type of anaesthesia is determined by the exact type of brow lift. Dr De Silva most commonly uses a modification of the endoscopic brow lift surgery which is routinely performed under local anaesthesia with sedation (oral or intravenous), also called MAC (Monitored anaesthesia care ) or “twilight anaesthesia” or general anaesthesia.

There can be a number of reasons for eyebrow asymmetry, which can include variability of the underlying bone architecture, variability in eyelid position including the exclusion of ptosis (droopy eyelid), depending on the cause there are different treatment strategies.

Symmetry can be improved with a brow lifting procedure, realistic expectations are an improvement as perfect symmetry can be difficult to obtain as the underlying anatomy may differ between the two sides.