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You have dark circles with some hollowing of the lower lids. Get some HA filler into this area and you should see a big improvement.
To me, the tear trough (line of dark shadow below the puffy lower eyelid) is the most noticeable thing. I think that is would be best corrected with filler or surgery. Given the lack of extra skin and your lower eyelid anatomy, the filler is a less risky option, but it's temporary, so you'd have to plan on getting it done about twice a year.
Hello. The lower eyelid is a complex area that often leads to patients thinking they need surgery to correct something they see. For dark circles, at your age, surgery is not the answer. The best approach is fillers to lessen the tear trough and camouflage the dark circles. Surgery of the lower eyelid would do little, if anything, to correct the dark circles.Good luck.
Both Drs Martin & Goldberg have given responses that we all would agree with. My question back to you why at such a young age the dark circles? - hereditary?, burning the candles at both ends?. Best to determine the cause for the circles than treat. Only in person opinions count!
First, you are much too young to be considering surgery at this point. You have a combination of two factors causing the discoloration below your eyes. The first is your natural somewhat olive skin tone and the second is the visibility of blood vessels just beneath the thin skin of the eyelid. Lack of sleep, stress and a host of other factors add to vascular congestion below the eye and darken the look. Sun exposure is also a problem and should be avoided with sun screens. There are two solutions and one which I favor......First you can have conservative placement of a filler to hopefully cover and disguise the vascular congestion. However this is expensive and will need to be repeated at least 3 times a year. There are also concerns with long term use stretching the thin skin and occasional black and blue, and misplacement of filler etc. etc. etc.......The second approach which I favor in a young person like yourself is simple camouflage with make-up....cheap, easy, and safe. Perhaps in ten years when excess skin becomes a problem you can consider a surgical blepharoplasty
I advise you to avoid steroid injections to the scar unless it starts to get lumpy. Steroid can make the skin thin and atrophic and then the vessels will show through excessively. Most eyelid scars end up doing very well. Silicone gel scar treatment (a very small amount of gel) may help the scar...
Excellent question and one that every surgeon assesses carefully for each patient. The "bags" are fat. They can be removed through the transconjunctival approach. Then the question is how much skin should be removed, definitely not centimeters, but rather millimeters. The pinch technique is one...
Dear smart55Thank you for your question and photo! You are still early after your procedure- it will take time for the swelling and healing to resolve- 6 months to a year.With Warm RegardsTrevor M Born MD