How Is Double Eyelid Surgery Performed on Eyes with a Lot of Fat?

Let’s take a look at how surgery is performed for eyes with a lot of fat.

Hello, I’m Director Choi Seung-hyeop of Wink Plastic Surgery. In cases where there is a lot of fat in the upper eyelid, simply creating a double eyelid line can make the eyelids look even puffier, heavy, and awkward. Let’s take a look at how surgery is best performed in such cases.

For puffy eyes with a lot of fat, it is better to perform the surgery while arranging and removing the fat. In general, the incision method is most suitable for fat removal, but in some people with less fat, a certain amount can also be removed with the non-incision method. However, if the skin is also sagging, the incision method, which can also remove skin, would be more appropriate.

Meanwhile, it may be necessary to distinguish between eyes with a lot of fat and eyes with a lot of skin and soft tissue. For people whose puffiness does not improve much even after removing upper eyelid fat, the cause is mostly more skin or soft tissue rather than fat. In such cases, eyebrow lift or forehead lift may be considered.

However, if too much eye fat is removed, the upper eyelids can become sunken. Especially when a lot of fat is removed in younger people, there is also a possibility that, along with age-related fat loss later on, the eyes may become excessively sunken, so it is better not to remove too much.

That concludes our look at double eyelid surgery for eyes with a lot of upper eyelid fat.

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