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Dark Under Eye Circles After Lower Eye Lift?
After having a lower eyelift, I now have very dark circles 10 weeks post op. Is this permament, and why did this happen? Now I HAVE TO wear concealer and did nto have this before the lift.
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cmb54521
in Ft Myers Beach FL
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Dark Circles Under Eyes After Lower Eye Lift Surgery
Dark circles under the eyes after eyelid surgery, there can be some temporary darkening of the skin (particularly for people who tan easily). Dark circles below the eyes are a combination of ethnic pigmentation, skin thickness, vascularity, and other factors such as allergies. In my practice in New York, I advise my patients after blepharoplasty to use an under eye cream with sunblock and typically the skin color returns to it's normal pigmentation. I even developed a medical-grade skin...
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Dark Circle Under Your Eyes
The most common cause of dark circles under the lower eyelids is hollowness from fat loss over the orbital rim. This hollowness causes shadowing leading to the appearance of dark circles. In my experience fillers are the best solution for this problem. Using topical numbing gel applied to the skin restylane can be delicately placed and molded into this depression instantly correcting the hollowness and greatly improving the appearance of the dark circles.
Removal of...
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Eyelid pigmentation has different causes
A photo would be helpful, but an in-person evaluation is more valuable. In general, there are three reasons why the skin around the eyes can be [or seem] darker:
1. The thin eyelid skin allows the darker muscle underneath to show
2. The hollowness around the eyes can create a shadow effect that exacerbates darkness
3. Skin pigmentation [sometimes from blood products from bruising] If it is blood product pigmentation, it could last months to improve...
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Dark Circles
This can happen and may be due to bruising from your surgery that can take time to correct.It coiuld be due to little vessels or increased pigmentation.This can be treated with some skin care lines or a lite peel.
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Fillers Work Well For Dark Circles Under the Eyes
There are a number of reasons for dark circles under the eyes. Lack of sleep, allergies, pigmentary abnormalities, and postoperative bruising under the skin have all been described as possible causes.
However, the first-time appearance and persistence of hollowness and dark circles under the eyes several months following lower lid blepharoplasty surgery suggests that perhaps too much fat was removed at the time of surgery leaving the delicate thin skin of the lower lid to...
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Ark under eyes after eyelid surgery
In my 35 yr experience I have never seen persistence under the eyes for longer than a month or two and even that is unusual.there are two exceptions to the rule: 1) if there is a lot of bleeding and trauma during surgery or maybe the patient has some high blood pressure or did during the procedure.2) when fat is removed from the lower orbit during lower blepharoplasty and especially if removal is excessive---then a postoperative hollwness and shadowy dark look can occur permanently. That is...
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