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Today I'm answering a question from our Facebook page.
And the question is about eye bags
and how to get rid of them.
So, firstly, to answer this question, I'd just like to
talk a bit about what eye bags are.
Eye bags are actually a prolapse of the fat
that's beneath the eye in the lower eye lid.
This can be genetic or can occur with aging.
Also, another thing which causes the appearance of eye bags
is the appearance of a trough, a tear trough
underneath the eye bag, which basically is a
ligament as attachment to the skin down to the
underlying muscle and bone.
This pulls the area down underneath the fat pad
to the, you knows, pull that area down,
so basically you have a bulging fat pad,
and then you've got a tear trough, which is
an attached area which is sunken in.
So this really defines and delineates the lower eyelid.
So the treatment of eye bags can be both
non-surgical and surgical.
In some cases, non-surgical would be better,
and in some cases, surgical would be better,
and in some cases, a combination would be better.
So firstly, if you have a lot of fat under the eye,
this may need to be removed with lower lid blepharoplasty.
The surgeon often goes through the conjunctival
or the red part of the eye.
Through that they'll take out fat through the cut there,
so it's a scar-less operation, you don't see any scars.
But it's an operation nonetheless, and often
people will be scared about this.
So the other option is nonsurgical.
And this can be done with dermal fillers,
and what you can do here is use dermal fillers to
fill up the trough, or the area beneath the lower eyelid.
That basically lifts up the trough back up to the level
of the eye bag underneath.
So you get a more even transition from the
lower eyelid to the cheek.
Now, in cases where there's quite severe fat herniation
or fat bulge, this may not give the ideal outcome.
Your doctor will assess whether that is the best way to
go about it or whether you need surgery first.
Sometimes also, surgery can have the risk of taking out
too much fat, in which case often fillers are used
to actually bring that whole area back out again.
So sometimes a combination of both surgery
and fillers can used.
I hope this helped to answer your question,
and I look forward to getting some more
Facebook questions and posts from you guys
in the future.