Eyelid Surgery in the Washington DC Area: Reston, VA and Chevy Chase, MD

At The Naderi Center, upper eyelid surgery is $8,000 to $15,000 and lower eyelid surgery is $8,000 to $15,000, including Dr. Naderi’s fee, general anesthesia, the surgical facility fee and all follow-up visits. Cherry financing is available.

No. Eyelid surgery at The Naderi Center is cosmetic, so it is self-pay and is not billed to insurance. Cherry financing is available if you would like to pay over time.

Most patients are back at work in 1 to 2 weeks and look presentable in about 10 to 14 days. No strenuous exercise for a month, full activity by about 3 months, and final results at 3 to 6 months.

You can drive once you are no longer taking the prescription pain medicine and there isn’t much swelling left on your eyelids. On the day of surgery, a responsible adult needs to drive you home.

Most patients describe it as mild. You’ll go home with prescription pain medicine, and you can use Tylenol instead if the pain is mild.

Dr. Naderi prefers that you are asleep, so you stay completely still and he has the best possible conditions for precise work around your eyes. Many patients also have eyelid surgery together with other procedures, and general anesthesia covers all of them in one surgery. Anesthesia is given by board-certified anesthesiologists and the nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) they supervise.

Yes. Together they take about two hours, and you have one recovery instead of two.

Upper eyelid scars sit in your natural crease and are hidden when your eyes are open. For lower eyelids, the incision is made inside the lid (a transconjunctival incision), so there is no visible scar on the skin.

Upper eyelid results typically last 10 years or more, and lower eyelid surgery rarely needs to be repeated, because fat that is removed does not come back. Your eyes will keep aging naturally.

In Dr. Naderi’s experience, his eyelid surgery patients don’t regret it. The result patients most want to avoid is lids that look tight or hollow because too much skin was removed. That is why Dr. Naderi is conservative: he removes only the skin that needs to go and restores lost volume with your own fat, so your eyes look rested and still look like you.

With age, eyelid skin loses collagen and elasticity and begins to fold over the lid. Under the eyes, the fat cushion around the eye pushes forward and forms bags, often with a hollow beneath. Genetics plays a big part, which is why some people have bags in their 20s or 30s.

There is no single best age. Many of Dr. Naderi’s eyelid patients are in their 40s, when heavy upper lids and under-eye bags start to show, and 70 is not too old if you are healthy. Your overall health matters more than your age, and Dr. Naderi checks your brows and cheeks along with your eyelids before recommending surgery.

No. Ptosis is a drooping of the eyelid itself, caused by a weak muscle that lifts the lid, and it is different from extra skin. Dr. Naderi does not repair ptosis. He checks your brow and eyelid position at your consultation, and if your eyelid itself droops, he will tell you, because removing skin alone would not fix it.

Eyelid surgery removes extra skin and bags, but it does not erase fine lines or crepey skin. For those, laser resurfacing around the eyes can be done during the same surgery, and Botox can soften crow’s feet.

Many patients combine eyelid surgery with laser resurfacing around the eyes, a brow lift, a facelift, fat grafting or rhinoplasty.

Usually, yes. Tell Dr. Naderi at your consultation. He is especially careful about how much upper lid skin he removes, because removing too much can leave more of the eye exposed and make dryness worse.

Not until Dr. Naderi clears you. You can wear your glasses right after surgery.

Dr. Shervin Naderi, a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon. He performs eyelid surgery under general anesthesia at Prince William Surgery Center, where he has been medical director since 2023.

Both facial plastic surgeons and oculoplastic surgeons are trained to operate on the eyelids. Dr. Naderi is a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon whose training covers the whole face, so he looks at your eyelids together with your brows and cheeks. That often decides whether eyelid surgery alone will give you the result you want, or whether a brow reset or fat grafting should be part of the plan. Whoever you see, ask about their board certification and how often they perform eyelid surgery.

He is conservative with skin. He removes only the skin that needs to go and restores lost volume with your own fat, including along the upper eyelid and the rim under the brow. He also checks your brow first, because, in his experience, about 9 out of 10 older patients who come in for upper eyelid surgery also need a brow reset. Every lower lid is done through a transconjunctival (inside-the-lid) incision, with no cut on the skin.

Yes. Dr. Naderi is more conservative with men. He removes skin only where it needs to be removed, keeps the upper lid crease lower and flatter, and often adds fat along the upper eyelid and the rim under the brow. If the brow needs to be reset, he avoids creating too much of an arch, so a man’s brows are never feminized.

At either office of The Naderi Center: 1850 Town Center Parkway, Pavilion II, Suite 551, Reston, VA 20190, (703) 481-0002, or 5454 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1655, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, (301) 222-2020. Patients come from across Northern Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland, and virtual consultations are available.