Medical Disclaimer

Babyface is a patient-education site about blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and eye-area rejuvenation. It is here to help you understand the subject and to keep you company while you weigh it up. It is not medical advice. This page sets out, plainly, the limits to hold it within.

This is not advice, and not a diagnosis

Nothing on Babyface is medical, surgical, or professional advice, and it is no substitute for a consultation with a qualified surgeon who can examine your eyes in person. The site is general information and one person’s account. It cannot know your eyelids, your tear film, your brow position, your vision, or your health, so it should never be used to decide for or against surgery on its own.

One pair of eyes is not a prediction

Much of this site is my own story: the swelling that peaked on day three, the dry and gritty weeks, the slow settling over months. That is one face and one recovery. Eyes, techniques, and healing differ enormously, so what happened to me is not a benchmark, a timeline you are owed, or a recommendation for you.

No result can be promised

A blepharoplasty lifts and debulks the eyelids, but it does not halt ageing, and no honest source can promise a particular result or how long it will last. Figures such as 10 years or more for the upper lids are ranges taken from the evidence, not commitments, and the brow keeps descending afterwards regardless. What is realistic for your eyes is a judgement only a surgeon can make after examining you.

This is real surgery, close to the eye

Eyelid surgery is an operation, carried out near the eye, with a genuine recovery and genuine risks. These can include dry or watery eyes, difficulty closing the lids fully for a time, a lower lid that pulls down or turns out, asymmetry, visible scarring, infection, and, rarely, a bleed behind the eye (retrobulbar haemorrhage) that threatens sight and needs immediate treatment. Reading about these does not reduce them. Only a surgeon assessing you can weigh them against your own case. The full account of the risks sits in the main guide.

No doctor-patient relationship

Using this site, emailing us, or reading a page checked by a surgeon does not create any doctor-patient or professional relationship between you and Selina Roth, Miss Priya Raman, or Babyface. Our reviewer confirms that the general content is accurate; she is not your surgeon and is not treating you, which is why the Editorial Policy describes her role as a review, not a consultation.

In an emergency

Do not rely on this site if something is wrong. Pain with lost vision, a lower lid pulling away from the eye, heavy bleeding, or anything getting worse rather than better after surgery is a same-day call to your surgeon’s team, or your local emergency number (911 in the United States, 999 in the UK, or 112 across much of Europe).

Always ask the professional

Before making any decision about eyelid surgery, and before acting on anything you read here, speak to a qualified oculoplastic, plastic, or facial-plastic surgeon and follow their advice over anything on this site. If in doubt, ask them, not us.