Alternatives to surgery for puffiness and eye bags?

Other than surgery, are there any products or lasers on the market to target the under eye puff and bags?

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A: Be careful of non-surgical blepharoplasty to remove eye bags

Brooke R. Seckel, MD

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... more

A: Injectable fillers are wonderful for lower eyelid rejuvenation.

Eric M. Joseph, MD

 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... more

A: Under eye bags

Robin T.W. Yuan, MD

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... more

A: Fillers may help for eye bags

Steven J. Pearlman, MD

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.... more

A: Bags under the eyes

Steven H. Schuster, MD

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... more

A: Alternatives to surgery for undereye bags

Tracy M. Pfeifer, MD

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... more

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