Fat Grafting to the Upper Eyelids: Can It Fundamentally Solve the Reason for Sunken Eyes?

When I typed “eye” incorrectly on the keyboard using English letters, SNS came up.  SNS can be described as an online service or platform that enables and displays mutual relationships among people who share interests or activities. Because it is mainly used to show photos to many other people, more and more people have recently begun paying attention to their appearance as SNS has become popular.

 Among appearance-related features, the eyes are regarded as the most important. The eyes play a major role in determining one’s image. Among them, the upper eyelids are often not given much attention, but when there is a lack of fat in the upper eyelids, they can make a person look tired, unwell, and older.

This condition is professionally referred to as “Suken eye,” and many people are looking to improve it. So let’s take a look at what causes sunken eyes and how they can be improved.

  First of all, most people who look for the reasons behind sunken eyes experience this condition due to aging.

As people get older, the aging process naturally occurs.

One of the natural changes that comes with aging is the upper eye socket becoming sunken.

This is because the eyes are the area of the face where the skin is the thinnest, so wrinkles form easily and subcutaneous fat is also easily lost.

In addition, among those who want to know the reason for sunken eyes, younger people often wonder why this happens to them.

In such cases, it may be caused by excessive dieting for the sake of a desired body shape, poor habits such as rubbing the eyes, or genetic factors.

A sunken eyelid appearance not only makes one look tired and older, but in people with double eyelids, the crease may become higher and asymmetrical, or the double eyelid may become too high.

Also, functionally, the strength used to open the eyes may weaken, causing eye fatigue, dry eye syndrome may develop, and it can even lead to ptosis, so improvement is definitely necessary.

Many people who are concerned about a sunken upper eyelid may be wondering how to improve upper eyelid hollowness. For those with such concerns, we would like to introduce Eyelid Volume Up, a more advanced option than fat grafting to the upper eyelids.

  Eyelid Volume Up is a nickname for an upgraded procedure beyond upper eyelid fat grafting, considering that fat graft survival is low in the eyelids, which move frequently, and that there is a high possibility of adhesion. It refers to orbital fat repositioning surgery for the eyelids.

Eyelid Volume Up is a method that pulls fat hidden behind the eyebrows down to the sunken eyelid area and repositions it in the hollowed eyelid region.

You may be wondering how there can be fat around the eyes when there seems to be no fat there. If you pinch above and below the eyebrows with two fingers, you may feel the hidden fat. Eyelid Volume Up repositions this fat behind the eyebrows.

  Then you may be wondering why Eyelid Volume Up is said to be a more advanced method than upper eyelid fat grafting.

In the case of traditional upper eyelid fat grafting, fat is harvested from areas with abundant fat such as the abdomen, thighs, or buttocks, then processed and injected into the sunken eyelids to improve them.

As mentioned earlier, the eyelids are an area with a great deal of movement. Therefore, the survival rate of the fat that remains is relatively low. In upper eyelid fat grafting, because the eyelid fat survival rate is low, over 50% may disappear within 1 to 2 months, and in some cases, there is a high chance of adhesion.

In addition, additional fat grafting may be required, and the likelihood of surface irregularities due to adhesion was also high. Also, separate correction for ptosis caused by sunken eyelids is necessary, and in some cases, ptosis may become more severe.

On the other hand, Eyelid Volume Up does not involve harvesting fat from another area, but instead removes the cause of the sunken eyes and makes maximum use of the fat tissue around the orbit to reposition it.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about how long the results will last in terms of fat survival, and improvement is possible with a single surgery without the need for additional procedures. The surface is also relatively smooth without bumps.

In addition, there is no need for a separate ptosis correction that may be needed due to sunken eyelids, and ptosis can also be improved with eye correction surgery.

  Since the condition of sunken eyes varies from person to person, it is important to provide treatment tailored to each patient’s symptoms, rather than defining it with just one term.

In the case of Eyelid Volume Up, when the degree of hollowing is not severe, volume in the upper eyelid can be restored and a refreshed eye shape created with surgery that corrects ptosis and advances and repositions the orbital fat.

When eyelid hollowing is severe, ptosis correction, orbital fat repositioning, fat grafting, and fat injection may be necessary, and depending on the condition, volume is restored using microfat grafting and dermal-fat grafting.

  The eyes play a very important role not only aesthetically but also functionally, so it is important to proceed with surgery while considering both aspects.

At our clinic, plastic surgeon Oh Won-seok, a board-certified plastic surgery specialist dedicated to eye surgery, handles everything from individual consultations to customized surgery and recovery management checks.

If you’re curious about Eyelid Volume Up, which can solve the problem in one procedure by addressing the cause, please receive a consultation now.