Conditions - Baggy or Droopy Eyelids

Restoring your eyes needs to address three concerns: volume, texture, and/or skin excess. In general, upper eyelid treatment is more direct. Lower eyelid treatment is often part of overall facial rejuvenation.

Skin excess: Removing lower eyelid skin is almost never required. In fact, removing skin from your lower eyelid is likely to change the shape of your eye. Tucking your eyelid skin helps to both eliminate excess skin, as well as replacing lost eye volume. Using a laser, the surface of your skin excess is vaporized, and then tucked.

Texture: Just as a rubber band looses its elasticity over time, your skin becomes loose over time. If you have little skin excess, or if your eyelid skin is “crêpe,” laser resurfacing rejuvenates your skin.

Resurfacing creates a controlled injury to your eyelid skin. As the injury heals, your skin becomes smoother. Although you will experience some redness, this can be camouflaged by make-up.

Volume: (See Eyelid Rejuvenation) Commonly, restoring volume is used for lower eyelid treatment. Lower eye area volume has a major impact on your overall appearance. Fat grafting is the most common technique for adding volume.
 

The tissues under the eyes has a flat gently tense tone in youth. Age and other factors can let the muscles sag and fat bulge. Some call this protrusion blepharochalasis and more commonly called under eye bag or baggy eyelid. It is a very common condition seen with:

• Normal aging

• Fatigue or being tired

• Allergies

• Swelling

• Obesity

• Certain medical problems

Conditions associated with eye bags:

• Blepharochalasis - uncommon combination of protruding skin folds of eyelids, severe thinning of lid skin, recurrent episodes of lid swelling and inflammation

• Dermochalasis - extra skin

• Hypertrophy of the orbicularis muscle - eyelid muscle overgrowth

• Protrusion of intraorbital fat

• brow ptosis - baggy upper eyelids from drooping brows

• Combination of the above problems

Blepharoplasty for eye bag removal depends on the individual problem(s). Blepharoplasty sculpture is often a blend of individual elements to address each component of what has caused the baggy eyelids.