Fat Transfer in Temples for Lifting Upper Eyelids?

Volume replacement / augmentation has become a significant component in the minimally-invasive technique of facial rejuvenation. Temple augmentation, whether with your own fat or a filler such as Radiesse, or hyaluronic acid, such as Perlane or Juvederm Ultra Plus can make one look younger.
It does not create much of a lift to the outer eyebrow, but direct injection underneath the outer eyebrow does produce a slight lift of the upper eyelid, which can improve the hooding. The amount of improvement varies from patient to patient.
Mid cheek fat augmentation, or filling with other products, such as Radiesse, or collagen stimulation with Sculptra, can help improve the smile folds by supporting the mid cheek.
Once the cheek is better supported, there is a decrease in its tendency to fall onto the smile fold, thereby making the fold appear less deep. It does help lift the jowl to a slight extent, but the thicker-skinned jowls that have more fat lift less than the thin-skinned jowls that have minimal subcutaneous fat.
Filler can be used, though, between the jowl and the chin (the prejowl sulcus) to make the jawline more straight.

  IMHO, this simply will not work.  fat transfer to the temples is an exceeding good way to treat the hollowness in the temples that occur in some individuals with age.  It seems like an exceedingly ineffective way to perform lateral browlift to treat upper lid redundancy.

Fat transfer to the temples are a great way to correct atrophy induced depression that contributes to an aged appearance. The upper eyelid hooding and lateral ptosis (drooping) is not related to the temple atrophy and are separate components of the aging process. In my opinion, increasing the volume of the temple area through fat transfer will not raise the lateral brow nor will it effect the upper eyelids.

 

Fat injections in the temples and lateral brow area can give a degree of lifting which may be enough for younger patients.  For patients with a more significant amount of brow droop surgery (brow lift) is a better option.

It sounds that you will achieve a better and more definitive result with a lift procedure Temporal and short scar face lift.
However, the use of fat grafting may provide some correction in the gaunt appearance. It will not likely achieve a significant lifting effect.
Fat injections immediately below the outer portion of the brow can accomplish a slight lifted appearance.