TP HCMMs. Minh, 51 years old, went to a facial spa and was advised by a consultant to “lift her eyebrows” to expand her horoscope and change her fortune.
This person explained that Ms. Minh’s eyelids were drooping, “not only does it make the house smaller, but it also makes her face look heavy and old.” The eyebrow hanging procedure will help this part have an arc shape, not only attracting fortune and land but also helping Ms. Minh look ten years younger and be respected by everyone. Convinced by the offer, the woman agreed to do it.
A day later, the wound in her eyebrow area was red and swollen. She returned to the spa to complain and the staff wrote a prescription for antibiotics and asked her to buy and take it. Even though she went back and forth twice and changed the antibiotics, Ms. Minh’s wound became more and more filled with deep pustules, breaking out one time after another. Not only that, the patient’s upper eyelids are still sagging as before.
During a check-up at Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in mid-April, the doctor noted that Ms. Minh had many pustules about 1 mm deep growing along her eyebrows. The wound area was rough and infected. Patients will suffer bad scars even if treatment is successful.
Similarly, near the Lunar New Year 2024, the hospital also received a woman over 40 years old to be examined because of a painful, swollen wound on her forehead. The doctor noted that the erythema was swollen, with pustules on the surface, spreading across the forehead, down to the temples, eyes, base of the nose, and exposed muscles.
“This is a case of deep and widespread necrotic infection after a brow lift procedure at an unlicensed private facility,” said M.D. Nguyen Phuong Thao, Department of Dermatology – Skin Aesthetics, speak.
The patient is treated with oral and topical medications, necrotic tissue removal and then skin grafting. Although the condition has stabilized, the motor and sensory functions of the forehead area are preserved, but it is difficult to restore to its original state, greatly affecting aesthetics.
The patient suffered complications after feng shui eyebrow repair at an unreliable facility. Image: Doctor provided
Brow lift, also known as eyebrow lift, is a procedure performed to lift eyebrows that have sagged due to aging. Depending on the condition and cause of sagging, the doctor will remove excess skin or fat, at the same time stretch the sagging skin under the eyebrows, and finally sew it up with thread.
“This is an invasive surgery, relatively safe if performed according to instructions and techniques, by trained and certified doctors,” Ms. Thao said.
Before surgery, the doctor will ask medical history and perform a comprehensive examination to check indications and contraindications, ensuring patient safety. People with a history of blood clotting disorders, allergies to anesthetics, anesthetics, or high blood sugar, poorly controlled hypertension, or poor scar healing will be carefully considered and evaluated. before surgery.
However, many people have the mentality of being cheap and fast, easily becoming “easy prey” for poor quality centers and spas. Every month, the Department of Dermatology – Skin Aesthetics receives several cases of complications due to eyebrow lift, mainly due to procedures performed at untrustworthy facilities.
Patients come for examination with problems such as infected scars with swelling, redness, pustules in the post-surgical suture area, or scars that contract and roll out the eyelids. There are cases of severe necrotic infection that spreads to the entire forehead, base of the nose, eyes, temples, and the muscles are clearly exposed. There are even people with drooping eyelids due to damage to the eyelid lift muscle, and changes in skin sensation on the forehead due to nerve damage.
Doctor Thao examines patients. Image: Doctor provided
The doctor recommends that when people want to perform eyebrow lift, they need to research and choose reputable licensed facilities with doctors who have practice certificates to perform the procedure.
In addition, women can choose non-surgical methods to lift their eyebrows to prevent risks and complications. Technologies that use waves such as focused ultrasound, radio waves, parallel synchronous ultrasound beams, or injection techniques of muscle relaxants, fillers, and threading to lift the eyebrows with recovery time Short, no scars, natural results.