Mention of operations to remove excess eyelid skin and occurs in a number of Indian medical treatises. However, after Avicenna in the history of blepharoplasty suffered a serious failure, and just before the end of the XVIII century of such operations is not found no mention in the medical literature. But already in 1792 in Vienna published medical work describing reconstructive surgery on the eyelids after the removal of tumors. At the time, blepharoplasty considered reconstructive surgery performed only for the restoration of a century after the removal of tumors or tissue damage. It was only later it became positioned as the operation to remove a cosmetic defect associated with the aging process of the upper and lower eyelids.
In the XVIII century blepharoplasty has become one of the most popular surgical techniques, the purpose of which was to remove the excess skin on the upper and lower eyelids. However, plastic surgeons of that era were removed only the skin without affecting body fat. Therefore, the effect of the operation is not held for as long as I would like to patients. After the intervention was not always possible to achieve the desired appearance.
Removal of fat during blepharoplasty was first performed in 1929, surgeon J. Bourguet. Greatly facilitated the work of plastic surgeons of the future and thorough work of Jose Castanares, who made a complete description of the structure and location of fat on the eyelids.
Modern technology blepharoplasty are based on the works of eminent doctors of the 20th century - Surgeons Holden, Fox, Levi, Furnas, Tomlesona and Baker. Modern blepharoplasty involves several techniques of the operation, no longer based on the removal, and fat redistribution century. At the same time gradually gaining popularity and non-surgical blepharoplasty, based on laser technologies correcting the appearance of the upper and lower eyelids.