Possible risks of eyelid surgery include: Infection and bleeding. Dry, irritated eyes. Difficulty closing your eyes or other eyelid problems.

Can you do blepharoplasty twice?

Most patients never have another surgery. But Dr. Teitelbaum sees patients who had an upper blepharoplasty fifteen or twenty years earlier who are coming in for something else and decide to do a tweak. But usually that is just a minor touch up rather than an entire redo of the blepharoplasty.

Can eyelid surgery fail?

I counsel patients before eyelid surgery that 5-10% of droopy eyelid surgeries fail. This is usually due to excessive swelling after surgery, post-operative bleeding, poor tissue strength and asymmetries that the surgery can't address.