Alternatives to Surgery for Puffiness and Eye Bags?

Thank you so much for your question! Eye puffiness as well as eye bags, while they may look unsightly, could be improved. That said, it is important to always be careful in using products or undergoing treatments to fix them. Now, depending on the severity of the puffiness or the bags, various treatment plans can be executed by a board certified plastic surgeon. If your puffiness or bags are not severe or just starting out, you get good results with topicals although these may not last long or will not totally eradicate the issue – only improve it minimally. Topicals also do not help in eradicating the root cause. Should your puffiness or bags become severe, the best option would be surgery. So, if you are looking to improve such puffiness or bags, do consult a board certified plastic surgeon and have the puffiness evaluated. After assessment, he or she will be able to guide you in deciding which best solution to solve your issue. Hope this helps!

You would be a candidate for a  lower eyelid  blepharoplasty.    If you have herniation of orbital fat causing bags of the lower lids with lack of soft tissue fullness.  These features can be corrected with a lower eyelid blepharoplasty.  If the condition is only lose skin then you may want to consider SmartSkin or  SmartXide microablative fractionated CO2 laser resurfacing.   A consult would be needed to advise you which procedure would meet your expectations.  Other choices would include soft tissue fillers such as Juvederm.