Eyebags Caused by Skin- Is a Laser Preferred Over Surgery?

10 years ago, when I was 26, I had a lower blepharoplasty to remove fat. No skin was removed. Since then I've always had a line dividing the eyelid from the cheek. With years, this line has become more prominent creating shadow. Last week I visited one of the reknowned plastic surgeons here to have these bags removed. He told me that my bags were due to skin and not fat. He recommended fractional laser tightening telling me not to do any skin removal because my lids were thick. can laser help?

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Treatment of the tear trough

Without photos or a face to face physical examination it is impossible to answer your post specifically. In general what you describe is removal of eyelid fat when you were young resulting in thinning of the tissue over the bone rim under the eye so the tear trough and palpebromalar groove are more visible. That is the dividing line between the eyelid and cheek. You then describe eyelid bags which is usually fat but then your fat was already removed. You say the surgeon recommended... more