What is the difference between the suture technique and the laser technique?
This can be confusing, because sutures (stitches) are used in both techniques. In the suture technique there is no cutting and no tissue removed. The sutures are passed in and out of the eyelid and are buried, and remain there permanently. There are no stitches outside on the skin. This is best in younger patients with thin eyelids with little fat. The laser technique is like other Asian blepharoplasty cutting techniques, but the laser is used to cut. The skin is cut with a special radio frequency tool (to avoid scarring), and the CO2 laser is then used to cut and remove a thin strip muscle and fat. Then two layers of stitches are used to make the crease and close the skin. The stitches on the skin dissolve by themselves after a week or 10 days.
