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Oculoplastic Depth, Not Just Volume
1,600+ upper lids, performed alone and alongside brow lifts and levator repairs in the same building.
Istanbul, Turkey — Board-Certified, Three Causes, One Answer
The Eyelid Is Not Always the Only Culprit.
A heavy, hooded lid can come from excess skin, from the lid margin itself dropping, or from a descended brow — three different problems that look alike but need different corrections.
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Three separate things produce the same heavy, hooded look in a photograph, and they need genuinely different corrections. Upper blepharoplasty corrects the first one directly. On the second and third it can be performed perfectly and still leave you looking at most of what you came in about.

01 · Dermatochalasis
Loose, redundant upper lid skin overhanging the lash line, with the lid margin itself sitting where it should. This is the most common reason patients come to this page, and it is exactly what upper blepharoplasty corrects. Remove the fold and the eye opens.
Excess lid skin with a normally positioned margin.
€2,400 for both upper lids — on our current list.

Plastic Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr Emre G. qualified in medicine at Uludağ University in 2007 and completed his specialist training in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery at Bezmialem Vakıf University between 2008 and 2014, with a research post at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He has worked in both public hospitals and private practice, and the reconstructive half of that training shows in how he plans an aesthetic case. He practises at Natural Clinic in Istanbul.
Education
Short answer: yes, and the thing to verify is not the price. Ask whether the clinic checks your lid margin and your brow height before recommending skin removal, and whether it can perform the levator repair and the brow lift itself.
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1,600+ upper lids, performed alone and alongside brow lifts and levator repairs in the same building.
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Your lid margin is measured against the pupil with the brow held still, then your brow is lifted manually to see whether the heaviness resolves.
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Lower operating, staffing and facility costs plus the exchange rate produce a real difference against the €4,500–€8,500 upper blepharoplasty commands elsewhere.
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One trip of five to seven days: examination, surgery, suture removal and a pre-flight check.
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An international patient team coordinates every appointment in English, with Dutch-speaking coordination on request.
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Ministry of Health licence, the operating surgeon's board registration, logged sterilisation cycles and an independent anaesthesia review.
The only real risk of getting upper-lid surgery wrong is taking too much skin. Every step is designed to avoid it.
If lifting your brow with a finger fixes the hooding, a brow lift may be needed instead of, or as well as, upper-lid surgery.
The amount removed is measured with you upright so the lid still closes comfortably afterwards.
The surgeon excises a crescent of surplus eyelid tissue along the marked crease; hair-thin stitches then hold the fold while it knits.
Stitches come out after a few days, and the line sits in the natural crease where it becomes very hard to see.
Removing hooded upper-lid skin — who upper blepharoplasty suits and what to expect.
Upper blepharoplasty is eyelid surgery that removes excess skin, and sometimes a small amount of fat or muscle, from the upper eyelids. It reduces hooding, creates a clearer eyelid crease and can make the eyes look more open and less tired.
Upper blepharoplasty suits people whose upper eyelid skin has become loose or heavy with age, causing a tired look, difficulty applying eye make-up or, in more severe cases, skin resting on the lashes and restricting the upper field of vision.
Not always. A drooping brow can push skin down onto the upper lids, making them look heavier than they are. If lifting your brow with a finger improves the hooding, a brow lift may be needed instead of, or alongside, upper blepharoplasty.
If the examination points at your brow rather than your lid skin, the brow lift page is the one you actually want. If it points at the lid margin, the eyelid surgery hub covers ptosis in depth.
Personalised Care, Just for You
Send front and three-quarter photographs with your eyes relaxed and your forehead completely still. A facial surgeon reviews your case and replies with a realistic, itemised plan — which of the three causes is driving it, whether a brow lift or ptosis repair needs to join the operation, how much skin and fat are coming out, what it costs with free transfers and the hotel arranged, and how many nights you'll be in Istanbul. No obligation, no pressure, no cost.
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