I've only used a photo of one side of my face below but recently I've noticed puffiness on my upper cheekbones, I'm confused as to whether it's a festoon or just puffiness. If it is just puffiness is there a way to make it go away?
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Malar bags, also called festoons, are problematic because they are not helped by traditional facelift and/or eyelid surgery. While skin resurfacing, with a hundred different types of lasers and/or chemical peels are important parts of treatment, in my opinion, orbicularis muscle plication with ...
If you have redness and swelling and there are signs of infection, then the implants may have to come out. It is hard to predict how the tissues will respond but likely you will appear flatter.
Very difficult to say what might be happening with your eyelids. Residual ptosis is evident more on the right than the left. The downgaze suggests some retraction. I'm wondering if you have a congenital ptosis or myogenic ptosis rather than a simple levator dehiscence - your surgeon should be...
