Alternatives to Surgery for Puffiness and Eye Bags?

While many products will claim to improve this problem, if it is fairly severe then surgery is your best option.  Some topicals will help the skin improve minimally but will not help the underlying tissue weakness.

Some doctors are attempting to remove eye bags with suction and other "non-surgical"laser methods-in my opinion these are dangerous techniques and risk eye injury. Dont try them. Filler injections can plump the depression beneath the eye bags, but the bags remain! Filler injections into the eyelids cause frequent problems such as visible lumps and discoloration so be forewarned. If you need a blepharoplasty to remove eye bags then have it--these procedures are time proven and safe... more

The appearance of bags in your lower eyelids is usually due to a groove that forms between the lid-bag, and cheek. By placing Injectable Fillers in the lower eyelid groove, you can camouflage them and dramatically improve your appearance. I've attached a link demonstrating a photo using Silikon-1000 to permanently reduce the appearance of lower eyelid bags. I hope this is helpful, and best regards.

The appearance of bags or shadows under the eyes is not due to one specific problem. This can be caused by many anatomical variations from pigmentation, to capillary blood flow, to excess periorbital fat, to loose membranes, to under-developed bony structures, to skin laxity, etc. The solution would be dependent on the cause. Surgery is not always the answer.

It is difficult to give specific advice on "eye bags" without an examination. Bags usually come from the fat around the eyes protruding which can be either inherited or come on with age. If there is a hollow area beneath, called a tear trough, it can be filled with an injectable such as Restylane. However, the skin in this area is very thin and patient selection is important. The best treatment is usually surgery to either remove the excess fat or take the extra fat and move it to... more

Dear Meowtz Bags under the eyes can be from many sources. It may also depend upon your age and heredity. Some patient I have taken care of are genetically predisposed to fat herniation and request a blepharoplasty at an early age. In other patients there is not fat popping through the lid but cheek puffiness or what is referred to as malar bags. Either way, there is no treatment other than surgical for the removal of fat from under the eyelids. I would suggest a consultation with a board... more

Undereye bags can have several components and usually it is due to a combination of factors. One factor is that the fat underneath our eye starts to pooch forward; this gives the puffiness and is only corrected by surgery. In some countries docs will inject this fat to "dissolve" it but this is not FDA approved in the United States. A second component is that we start to get a tear trough; that is the line from the inner eye that travels down towards the cheek. This tear... more