Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Get An Eyelid Surgery & Get Rid Of Your Headaches

I am sure a financial headache is the first one that might have come to your mind.

But what I’m talking about here is the splitting, numbing headache known as migraine which could be dispelled with a certain upper blepharoplasty technique. Initially discovered to be one of the key pressure points of a migraine, the corrugator muscle in the forehead is removed with this cosmetic surgery procedure.

The corrugator supercilii, a vital ‘expression’ muscle, begins at the inner orbit of the eye right next to the nasal base and continues into the mid-forehead skin. By removing it in a plastic surgery to eradicate the frown lines in the forehead, plastic surgeons found patients to experience a total absence of their migraine.

Some cases of Botox treatments were also found to display a similar relief leading cosmetic surgeons to dig deeper.

Surgeons now use Botox to paralyze this muscle and use it as a screening process for eyelid surgery candidates who want to cure their migraine in one go. If the candidate experiences a significant improvement for a week or two after receiving the Botox injection, the eyelid surgeon goes ahead with the procedure.

This eyelid surgery procedure takes only thirty minutes and in the long run, could prove to be very crucial for neurological studies. For blepharoplasty patients however, it could be ‘killing two birds with one stone.’

Get in touch with the Plastic Surgery Institute of California to know how you stand to benefit.

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