I am 25 years old and I have had fat injections under my eyes about 3 months ago. I had hollowness and dark circles around my eyes, and my plastic surgeon suggested a fat injection. However, I found that the fat has lumped and the dark circles are still visible. It now looks like a have bags under my eyes. I'm really not happy with the results of the procedure and I want to know if it can be corrected by transconjuctival blepharoplasty. However, I don't want all the fat to be taken out because I have found that my eyes aren't as dry as they used to be before the fat transfer.
I am really worried about the bags under my eyes. It makes me look tired and I am really conscious about it. Please give me some advice. Thank you.
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6 Feb 2009
Hi Tuscany, Fat transfer is a growing trend for lower eyelid/midface correction. I use fat transfer as well but I prefer to place the fat into the areas I'm treating under a direct surgical approach rather than injecting. I'm not too sure in what plane your surgeon injected the fat in. If it is deeper into the orbital area, then a transconjunctival blepharoplasty might be able to get to the placed fat. Typically with fat injections, surgeons tend to stay in the sub-skin area. I recently treated 3 patients who had fat injected into their eyelids from 5 years to 1 year ago. I was able to reduce the amount of fat in those areas with some steroid injections. I would recommend a very conservative amount and using a stronger concentration as a very small volume will be injected. There unfortunately are also complications with steroid injections around the eyelid region. Reported cases of blindness have occured from injecting the steroid medication into small arteries around the eyelid that go into the eye. Hopefully your surgeon knows what area of the eyelid he/she injected the fat. Based upon location you have different options to improve the appearance. I hope this helps!