Eye-area wrinkles: the treatment changes depending on the location <feat. Botox, skin boosters, Eye Thermage>

Hello.

I’m Lee Won-shin, a dermatologist with 23 years of experience.

“I’m worried about wrinkles around my eyes, but I don’t know what treatment to get.”

I get this question very often.

But eye-area wrinkles are not all the same.

That’s because the treatment method changes completely depending on where the wrinkles appear and what causes them.

Today, I’ll organize three representative types of wrinkles that occur around the eyes and the treatment methods suitable for each.

Table of contents

1. First, expression wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes

2. Second, fine wrinkles under the eyes

3. Third, drooping eyelids

4. Which treatment is right for my eyes?

First, expression wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes

These are the wrinkles that fan out at the outer corners of the eyes when you smile.

They are commonly called crow’s feet.

Because they appear when you smile, they are not wrinkles that make you look unpleasant.

However, when these wrinkles start to appear after not being noticeable before, it can make you think, “Am I getting old?” and feel upset.

At first, these wrinkles only appear when you smile, but over time they develop into wrinkles that remain even when you are not smiling.

So it is best to treat them preventively before they become fixed wrinkles.

The easiest preventive method is Botox around the eyes.

Botox does not have the effect of regenerating the skin itself, but it helps reduce the way facial muscles cause the skin to fold excessively when making expressions.

If you receive it regularly, it can help prevent progression into fixed wrinkles that are visible even at rest.

However, there is one thing to keep in mind.

The eyes are an area that should still smile when you smile.

If you block the movement too strongly in an effort to erase wrinkles, your eye expression can become stiff and look unnatural.

For Botox around the eyes, natural-looking treatment is the most important thing.

Second, fine wrinkles under the eyes

Fine wrinkles that gather under the eyes begin relatively early.

They can start appearing as early as the late 20s or early to mid-30s.

The reason is that the skin under the eyes is the thinnest skin on the entire body.

Because the skin is thin, this is the area where elasticity declines first, and as a result, fine wrinkles appear early.

In this case, treatment is needed to strengthen the elasticity of the skin under the eyes.

A convenient option to try is a skin booster.

If a skin booster such as Rejuran or products that directly inject collagen, such as Regiten, Re2O, or Juacell, is injected directly into the skin layer, collagen regeneration occurs in the dermis and skin elasticity is restored.

However, skin boosters have limitations when it comes to producing dramatic improvement with just one treatment.

Using Rejuran as an example, I recommend about three consecutive treatments at one-month intervals,

and depending on the product, satisfaction is quite high when repeated treatments are performed several times at 1- to 3-month intervals.

Third, drooping eyelids

Lastly, the area that many people worry about the most is the change in the eyelids.

Because the eyelid skin is very thin, when elasticity decreases, the skin stretches easily.

• As it stretches, the double-eyelid line becomes increasingly covered and looks thinner,

• the outer corners of the eyes droop,

• the double-eyelid line appears as two or three overlapping lines,

• or a hollowed, sunken appearance develops along the eyeball.

The most effective treatment for drooping eyelids is Eye Thermage.

Eye Thermage uses a dedicated Thermage eye tip designed to concentrate treatment on the eyelid area, and depending on the severity, treatment is divided into 225 shots or 450 shots.

About one month after the procedure, you can expect a clearer eye shape and a more defined double-eyelid line.

And in some cases, not only the eyelids but also the forehead is drooping together.

In such cases, creating elasticity only in the eyelid skin is not enough to achieve a sufficient effect.

If you combine this with a lifting treatment such as Ulthera, which can lift the forehead area, or Emface, which stimulates the muscle layer to raise the forehead, you can achieve more natural and better results.

Which treatment is right for my eyes?

In actual consultations, more people have two or more types of wrinkles at the same time than have only one of the three types.

For example, if someone has both expression wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes and drooping eyelids, a combination treatment that prevents progression of the expression wrinkles with Botox while restoring eyelid elasticity with Eye Thermage is effective.

If fine wrinkles under the eyes and drooping eyelids are present together, we approach this by appropriately combining a skin booster and Eye Thermage.

The important thing is to accurately identify which type of wrinkle you have and choose the treatment that matches it.

Even though they are all eye-area wrinkles, the treatment method changes if the cause is different, so an accurate diagnosis must come first to achieve satisfying results.

To conclude,

To summarize, eye-area wrinkles have different causes and treatment methods depending on their location.

Botox is suitable for expression wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes, skin boosters such as Rejuran or Regiten are suitable for fine wrinkles under the eyes, and Eye Thermage is suitable for drooping eyelids.

Because there are various methods depending on the type of wrinkle,

I recommend visiting a dermatologist and receiving professional counseling on which treatment is appropriate for your eye condition.

Thank you for reading this long post.

This was Chief Director Lee Won-shin.

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