I am planning on having lower blepharoplasty because of descending fat pads and hollowness which filler can't help with (it constantly moves around as the hollowness is very low, around thte cheek area) The problem is not so much protruding fat pads, but the descent of my cheeks. The filler was injected long time ago, about 2.5 years ago, it was Perlane. Can the surgeon remove the filler during surgery?
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Upper eyelid hollowness is a dramatically underappreciated, yet incredibly important component of aging in the eyelids. With normal aging, our upper eyelid fat pads tend to retract and expose this upper lid hollowness, those with “deep set eyes“ are especially prone, and unfortunately old...
A full set of facial photographs that are non--animated are required to make a determination about what may be needed. The photographs also need to be in a chin neutral position looking forward into the camera. From the limited photographs, it does not appear that a brow lift is necessary since...
If you need both upper and lower blepharoplasty, it would be preferable to do them at the same time because you will only have one recovery period to go through and it may also lower the expense of surgery. However, if you don't yet need one of these procedures, it is perfectly fine to wait and...
