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What Type of Facelift Will Correct Under Eye Hollowness?
Will facelift correct under eye hollowness? Thanks
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BrookeinCO
in Colorado
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Facelift and Fat Grafting
A physical exam would be imperative to sort your specific problems, but a combination of fat grafting and/or cheek resuspension may be in order if you have hollowness at the lid cheek junction. Sometimes a lift is not necessary. You may need filler or fat grafting.
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Correcting Under Eye Hollowness
The key is to blend the eyelid/cheek junction and this is done with a 5 Step Blepharoplasty for lower eyelids where you reshape and camouflage the eyelid/cheek junction with or without removing eyelid fat and then restoring deep malar fat to provide for shaping of the eyelid/cheek junction.
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Cosmetic facelift surgery, lower eyelid bags
Dear BrookeCO,
The combination of a facelift and fat grafting gives really nice results to solve 2 different problems
They complement each other in the treatment of the aging face
If your neck and jawline are fine, then just stick to lower eyelid treatment
Best regards,
Nima Shemirani
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Consider volume replenishment
Hello,
Thank you for the question. Although there are several reasons to have under eye hollowness correction often involves volume replenishment such as fat grafting. Lower eye lid fat removal or redraping may also be warranted and beneficial.
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Endoscopic midface lift for under eye hollowness
An endoscopic midface lift will elevate the soft tissues in your cheek and restore some of the volume under your eyes. A certain degree of improvement may also be noticed after a deep plane facelift if your surgeon takes the dissection medially enough. Depending on the cause of your under eye hollowness, lower blepharoplasty with fat repositioning and fat grafting may be the most appropriate treatment to correct it.
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Will facelift correct under eye hollowness?
Hi BrookeinCO,
Treatment of under eye hollowness depends on the condition creating the appearance of hollowness. Fillers are used to treat areas of volume loss. Surgery is performed to remove or reposition fatty herniations that can give the appearance of lower eyelid hollowness. Often, both treatments are recommended. Diagnosis by a facial surgeon is necessary to determine which treatment(s) is best for you.
Best of luck,
Dr. Tom Kaniff
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Solutions For Under Eye Hollowness
A face lift will not correct under eye hollowness. As we age, our faces lose collagen and fat resulting in midface (cheek) volume loss. Typically the best treatment for volume loss is dermal filler such as restalyne or Juvederm. Transferring fat to this area is a great solution as well.
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Facelift to correct hollowness under the eye area...
Unfortunately a facelift will not correct this type of problem. A facelift focuses on the lower part of the face, jaw line, and neck. The procedure that is beneficial to the lower eyelids is lower blepharoplasty with fat transfer. The fat is usually harvested from the outer thigh, processed, and injected into the hollows around the eye. This procedure combined with a lower blepharoplasty greatly improves the appearance of the lower eyelid area. Both...
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Under eye hollowness
What you described may best be treated with fat grafting or fat transposition during a blepharoplasty. Facelift is unlikely to correct what you have described.
Dr. ES
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Under eye hollowness
Facelift is unlikely to correct under eye hollowness. Lower blepharoplasty and/or filler or fat injections are more likely candidates. See an oculoplastic surgeon.
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Undereye hollow correction
While a "facelift" sounds like it should lift/fix any and everything that is aging on the face, it really addresses the lower half of the face, especially the jawline and chin/neck area.
For what you are describing, injectable fillers, fat transfer, and/or lower blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) would be the best match.
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Stay away from surgery initially
Most likely you have a tear trough deformity that can be addressed with surgery and/or fillers (e.g. hyaluronic acid or fat). As stated by others, facelift surgery would not likely provide the improvement you are looking for, rather lower lid blepharoplasty with fat transposition. However, if I were you, I would start conservatively in this area, using fillers into the tear trough area and consider the addition of laser resurfacing. This is one facial area that I believe we...
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Atlanta Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Correct hollow looking eyes
Here are four possible causes and corrections:
Dark circles without true hollowing? Try Retin A skin care and TCA or light croton oil peel.
Hollowing after lower lid lift? Too much fat removed. Try very carefully placed filler and/or re-operation with fat grafting.
Hollowing with flat cheeks, jowls and loose neck? Try extended face lift which lifts tissue back onto the cheeks.
Looseness of lower eye lid tissues themselves? Try canthopexy.
How to tell which is...
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Will a facelift correct under eye hollowness?
Under eye hollowness can be caused by volume loss as well as tissue sagging. Frequently, fillers such as Restylane or autologous fat can be used to restore volume and create a natural, more youthful look without having to have a facelift. It is important to get a couple of opinions from qualified and experienced surgeons after a comprehensive evaluation.
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Under eye correction during a facelift
Some physicians perform a high SMAS facelift. This is fundamentally different from the SMAS facelift, deep plane, composure, etc. that we all learned in our residency training. However the skin should not be pulled in a purely upward direction without altering the hairline and direction of pull of the face.
The high SMAS facelift lifts the SMAS to well above the zygoma, into the area beside the eye. Therefore it is possible to lift the outer portion of the...
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Facelift and Lower Eyes
The facelift procedure, unless combined with a lower eyelid lift or fat transfer or facial implant, may not significantly affect your lower eye area. You should focus first on finding the right doctor, who will then create a custom treatment plan for you.
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Under eye hollowness
Plastic Surgeons call this a 'tear trough deformity.' It is not corrected by facelift. However, a lower eyelid 'blepharoplasty' that involves the transposition of living eyelid fat to the hollow usually helps. Fat grafting has also been used but there is a risk of lumpiness. The injection of 'fillers' is reasonable but the beneficial effect wears off as it is absorbed. I suggest you visit a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon in your area to see which option is best for you.
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What Type of Facelift Will Correct Under Eye Hollowness?
The faacelift procedure, no matter which type you do, is not designed to correct the hollowness under the eyes. A blepharoplasty with transfer of your own infraorbital fat may be a good choice. Other options include fat grafting and filler injections. See a surgeon who is well experienced in periorbital rejuvenation for an exam.
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Facelift For Undereye Hollowness
A facelift in the traditional sense will not improve undereye hollowness. There are specific blepharoplasty, filler, implant and midface lifting techniques that can address the hollowness, but which one may be right for your concerns is impossible to say without pictures.It is a challenging problem to improve but facelifting per se will not correct a volume deficient problem.
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Does facelift correct undereye hollowness
No facelift wont correct this. Fat grafting will along with a facelift. Fat grafting is an easy procedure and will work well on you. See my attached video with fat grafting with a facelift.
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What Type of Facelift Will Correct Under Eye Hollowness?
Dear BrookeinCO,
Without photos, it is impossible to give you a precise answer to your question. There are many causes for hollowing under the eyes and there are many options to address each of these causes. Some cases are best treated with a filler such as a fat transfer alone. Other forms of hollowing require surgery, either a face lift or a eyelid tuck(blepharoplasty) or both to correct. And others need both surgery and fillers. Which is best for you is...
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Midface lift, blepharoplasty or filler best for undereye hollows
A facelift typically would not address the areas that concern you. The options for the undereye area include midface lift, blepharoplasty with respositioning of undereye fat or dermal filler injection. I prefer either filler or blepharoplasty depending upon the anatomy of the area and the absence or presence of extra fat in the lower eyelid. A consultation would allow your specific concerns and options to be discussed. I hope this information is helpful.
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Under eye hollows.
It would be not proper to give an answer without seeing a picture as there are many causes. See an experienced facelift surgeon in your area.
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Facelift and under eye hollowness
Consult with a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, certified by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) to discuss your concerns and expectations. From the information given, it sounds like you need fat grafts in your lower eyelids, or have the fat repositioned during a lower blepharoplasty procedure.
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Correction of eyelids by facelift, cheek lift or litelift
Correction of eyelids by facelift, cheek lift or litelift
traditional eyelid surgery is best
fat grafts or other fillers can be used
the LiteLift facelift provides some improvement in cases
a cheek lift can help some
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