What Is the Most Appropriate Way to Improve Sunken Eyelids?

 

Time passes without being able to hold it back, and people grow older.

But because people want to hold on to that time, they make various efforts.

As time passes, cells, tissues, and organs in the human body undergo degenerative changes,

and human beings have long tried to overcome this, just as they once sought eternal life.

In particular, many women strive to maintain youthful beauty

and overcome the signs of aging.

Because we look at a person’s face first, the face creates a large part of the overall impression.

For that reason, people pay a great deal of attention to their faces.

What are the signs of aging in the face?

  A representative sign of facial aging is the sunken appearance of the eyelids.

The muscles that were once active in youth, regardless of exercise,

decline rapidly by 3% each year over time,

and depending on lifestyle, this can accelerate even further.

There are many reasons why the eyelids become sunken,

but in the case of aging, it happens because collagen, elastin, and fat that make up the skin decrease,

causing this change. 

Sometimes even younger people show sunken eyelids.

In such cases, it is often caused by weight changes due to severe dieting or by fatigue.

It can also occur because of bad habits such as rubbing the eyes, or for genetic reasons.

When the eyelids are sunken, people may hear that they look tired, sensitive, or unwell,

which can cause stress.

However, it is not only about appearance; when opening and closing the eyes,

there is a shortage of fat that acts like a lubricant,

so the eyes can become dry easily, and fatigue may be felt by the afternoon.

And in functional terms as well, because it becomes difficult to open the eyes,

it can lead to ptosis,

  Then what efforts are needed to improve sunken eyelids?

Many people are 고민하고 계시는데요, about what they should do to improve sunken eyelids.

Because it is not possible to make weight gain occur only in the desired area, this can be a concern.

For such people, fat grafting or fillers may come to mind as solutions.

In the case of the eyelids, because they move a lot, the fat survival rate is low,

so there is a high chance that the eyes will become sunken again without much effect,

and both fat grafting and fillers carry a high possibility of adhesion, which can make the eyes uneven.

With fat grafting, if adhesion occurs, it must be corrected surgically,

and although it depends on the type of filler, non-dissolving fillers must be removed through surgery.

Because of these inconveniences and concerns,

it seems many people have worried about how to improve sunken eyelids.

Today, for those people, we would like to introduce the method used at April 31 Plastic Surgery

for improving sunken eyelids.

If you press above and below your eyebrows with two fingers right now, you will feel some fat. The eyelid volume-up procedure performed at our clinic uses this. It is a method that improves sunken eyelids by pulling down the fat hidden behind the eyebrows and repositioning it to the sunken eyelid area.

Then you may be wondering how eyelid volume-up differs from conventional fat grafting. In traditional eyelid fat grafting, fat is harvested from other areas such as the abdomen, thighs, or buttocks, then processed and injected into the sunken eyelids to help improve them. However, in this case, because the survival rate is low, more than 50% may diminish within 1 to 2 months, and depending on the case, there was also the problem of adhesion. In the case of eyelid volume-up, fat is not separately harvested and injected; because it is a procedure that repositions fat, there is no need to worry about sunken results due to the survival rate.

Also, unlike conventional fat grafting, eyelid volume-up has the attractive point that when the eyelids become sunken, it can improve them without separately correcting ptosis, which may occur.

  The principle of improving sunken eyelids is simple, but if you want satisfying results,

an accurate diagnosis and a clear solution are necessary.

At our clinic, Director Oh Won-seok, a board-certified plastic surgeon specializing in eye surgery,

takes charge of checking the current condition through imaging, as well as consultation, surgery, and recovery care,

so you may be able to achieve the results you want.

If you want long-lasting, satisfying improvement for sunken eyelids?

Get a consultation now!