Nonsurgical Eyelid Restoration
Fix The Bags Under Your Eyes With Restylane
How Does One Get Eyelid ‘Bags?’With aging, the supporting structures of the face, including bone and fat, weaken and diminish in volume. This gives the face a deflated and aged appearance. The lower eyelid bags are really fat in the lower eyelids. But this is not the kind of fat you see when you gain weight--the lower eyelid fat does not get bigger with weight gain or as we age. The lower eyelid fat becomes more prominent due to the loss of supporting structures and the loss of tissue volume underlying the fat of the lower eyelid. As our cheek tissue descends away from the lower eyelid as a function of aging, a curved gap (like a Nike swoop) is left behind, often called the “dark circles under my eyes.” |
Lower eyelid “bags” or as many people describe as droopy eyelids may be fixed with a non-surgical smoothening treatment with the use of Restylane®. Restylane® can provide patients with the same improvements seen with lower eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) certain patients, without the downsides of surgery. The treatment consists of a ten minute office procedure that can eliminate the lower eyelid bags. It is through a procedure called Volume Restoration—which acts to re-inflate a deflated face.
Question: How does “Volume Restoration” work to make your face look younger?
Answer: The simple yet amazing concept between surgery on the eyelids and the Volume Restoration is that Volume Restoration actually adds tissue while eye plastic surgery removes it. The re-introduction of tissue volume to this area can restore a youthful appearance to the lower eyelid. With volume restoration the lower lid fat pads appear to vanish and the dark circles under the eyes diminish, without removing any tissue surgically. Volume Restoration refers to the goal of “re-inflating” the underlying tissues of the face with a filler. By filler, what that means is filling in the gaps for facial enhancement.
Prior to the introduction of a filler agent to correct “bags under the eyes”, surgeons resorted almost exclusively to blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery). This involves the surgical removal of eyelid fat that necessitates weeks to months of post-surgical swelling, in addition to the risk of weakening the lower eyelid complex from surgery. A weakened lower eyelid can cause a chronic dry eye condition or severe eyelid drooping that can appear deforming. The advent of safe and effective filler agents has permitted a revolutionary new non-surgical technique for smoothening of the lower eyelid.
While there are many fillers, Restylane® is an excellent choice. Restylane® is a non-animal substance that is naturally found in normal skin and does not require allergy testing prior to injection. It received U.S. FDA approval for clinical use in 2003, and has been in use in Europe since 1996. It has an excellent ongoing safety record for many years now. The main downside is that its effect lasts for 3 to 6 months, then you require reinjection.
Safe and effective treatment for restoration of volume to restore youthfulness to the lower eyelid is available without the risk of scarring and the “downtime” of surgery. In comparison to typical cosmetic procedures, injections of Restylane® take only 5-15 minutes to perform, and patients may return immediately back to work or home and resume normal activities immediately. Treatments of this kind are performed in an office setting which is convenient, private and safe for people who desire this type of treatment.
Non-surgical smoothening of lower eyelid “bags” with the use of Restylane® can provide patients with the same improvements seen with lower eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) in carefully selected patients without the downsides of surgery.
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Smoothening Puffy Lower Eyelid with Restylane®
Green Dots denote Area of Volume Loss That Accentuates Puffy Lower Eyelid “Bags”. Re-Inflation of the Tissue Underlying the Skin Helps Restore a Natural, Youthful, Smooth Contour to the Lower Eyelid WITHOUT Surgery.
Green Dots Denote Area of Volume Loss That Accentuates Puffy Lower Eyelid “Bags”. Re-Inflation of the Tissue Underlying the Skin Helps Restore a Natural, Youthful, Smooth Contour to the Lower Eyelid WITHOUT Surgery.
