Upper Blepharoplasty vs Sub-brow Lift

Two routes

Should you choose upper blepharoplasty or a sub-brow lift?

How the choice is made

Choose by what your lid holds and what you want to keep. Upper blepharoplasty enters through the line of the fold and removes skin, upper-lid fat and slack muscle before fixing the septum, so it suits a heavy, full lid whose crease can carry the scar. A sub-brow lift removes loose skin through a small incision just beneath the eyebrow and fixes it to the periosteum, leaving the eyelid and any existing crease untouched.

Both descriptions come from Rewind's Korean pages for the two operations and from its post-operative sheets. Neither page states an anaesthetic type or an operating time.

On the second question, which option preserves a monolid or an existing natural crease, the answer is the sub-brow lift. Rewind lists improving a drooping eye without a double eyelid among its reasons for that operation, and states that it works without disturbing the existing crease line. Upper blepharoplasty, working through the fold, leaves the crease line more clearly defined.

The balance tips the other way when the lid is bulky. The upper-lid operation's published steps include removing fat and slackened muscle, while the sub-brow steps describe removing skin and anchoring it to the periosteum. A lid heavy with fat therefore leans toward the fold route, and a lid whose main problem is loose skin, particularly toward the outer side, can often be answered from beneath the brow.

On one lid

How the choice between upper blepharoplasty and a sub-brow lift is made on one lid

Rewind offers both operations, so the choice is made on the lid itself. The surgeon works through five questions.

01Crease

Is there a fold, and should it stay as it is?

A monolid, or a natural crease the patient wants unchanged, points beneath the brow. A crease already hidden by skin, or a wish for a clearer line, points to the fold.

02Bulk

How much fat and muscle is there?

Fullness from fat and slackened muscle is addressed through the fold, where the published steps remove both. Loose skin with little bulk can be taken from below the brow.

03Spread

Where is the overhang heaviest?

Heavy wrinkling at the outer side of the eye is on the sub-brow list. An overhang running across the whole lid, or resting on the lashes, is on the upper-lid list.

04Brow

Has the brow itself come down?

Both operations work below the brow. If the brow itself has descended, a forehead lift is discussed, since neither route is designed to raise it.

05Scar

Which scar would you prefer to carry?

One line hides in the crease and the other sits just beneath the brow. Both are real scars that need sun protection while they heal, and where to carry one is a choice you make with the surgeon, with both options explained.

Rates side by side

Upper blepharoplasty and sub-brow lift prices in Seoul, compared

Both are listed as single operations. The forehead lift and the eye-opening add-on appear because the examination sometimes points to them, alone or alongside either route. Figures are in Korean won.

VAT is excluded and the anaesthetic fee included in each rate. A plan combining two operations is quoted with one line per operation.

The sub-brow lift sits lower on the list than upper blepharoplasty, in line with the smaller scope of its published steps. Choosing it for the figure alone makes sense only if its route suits the lid, since a heavy, fatty lid treated from beneath the brow may keep the fullness the fold route would have removed. Each rate is broken down on the sub-brow lift cost page.

Aftercare compared

How recovery differs after upper blepharoplasty and after a sub-brow lift

The two routes share a month of restrictions and differ in what Rewind's sheets ask of the area around each line.

The risks overlap. Bleeding, infection, swelling that lingers, asymmetry between the two sides and a visible scar can follow either operation. Particular to the fold route is removing too much lid skin, which is difficult to reverse, so the amount taken is judged cautiously on the lid; the brow-edge line, for its part, needs sun protection until it has matured.

Questions

Upper blepharoplasty or sub-brow lift: questions about the two routes