[Jaejoon YouTube] Lower Eyelid Surgery: Ask Anything!

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As we age, the body naturally goes through aging changes, and the skin under the eyes is a thin, sensitive area that tends to age faster than other parts of the face. In particular, the area under the eyes can lose soft tissue support, causing fat to bulge outward, which can make the face look shadowed and stubborn, so many people hope to improve it~

Today, we’re organizing the questions and concerns of people who are considering lower eyelid surgery!

1️⃣ When wrinkles under the eyes are severe and make the area look shadowed

2️⃣ When the area under the eyes is puffy or sagging downward

3️⃣ When sagging under-eye skin is severe and makes you look older than your age

Consider lower eyelid surgery!

Unlike under-eye fat repositioning surgery, which improves only the fat under the eyes, lower eyelid surgery, which can also lift the skin under the eyes, is by far a popular eye surgery for middle-aged patients.

This is the lower eyelid surgery method at Jaejoon.

Taking into account the condition of the sagging skin and the shape of the fat, we design the amount of skin to remove. 🔽 An incision is made near the lower lash line, and unnecessary sagging skin and fat are removed and redistributed evenly. 🔽 The sagging muscle is fixed to the orbital periosteum, and the remaining skin is removed and sutured. 🔽 A smoother, younger-looking eye area is completed!

Many of you are probably wondering how much pain there will be and how long the recovery period will be.

People who actually had lower eyelid surgery at Jaejoon also said that before surgery, many people worry a lot about pain, but after surgery, they said it felt more like heaviness and discomfort in the eyes rather than pain or throbbing.

Swelling and bruising vary greatly from person to person, and usually the major swelling goes down in about 1–2 weeks, and as the recovery period passes, wrinkles gradually smooth out and a firmer under-eye area is completed.

One of the side effects people worry about most is ectropion, where the lower eyelid turns outward. If it is not a case of the eyelid being turned outward dramatically, there may be a slight outward-turning feeling due to significant swelling, so it is better to observe how the swelling goes down before deciding whether revision surgery is needed. In most cases, it improves as the swelling subsides!

Also, since lower eyelid surgery is a representative surgery for middle-aged patients and a youthful-eye surgery, it is a procedure that should consider not only aesthetic improvement but also functional improvement, so thinking that wrinkles will improve by 100% is dangerous! 🙅‍♀️

If the skin is pulled too tightly, the risk of ectropion increases, so the degree of improvement must be approached carefully as well.

Unlike under-eye fat repositioning surgery, which makes an incision inside the conjunctiva and evenly rearranges the fat under the eyes, lower eyelid surgery, which also improves wrinkles in the skin under the eyes, involves an incision on the outer skin under the eyes.

Since lower eyelid surgery is, after all, a middle-aged surgery, the recovery process tends to be slower, so it is natural to worry a lot about scarring. It is hard to say exactly without seeing the scar condition, but most scars can be improved by cutting out the scar tissue and correcting it again, so there is no need to worry too much~!

If you’ve been scared and your worries have only grown before the consultation because of sensational posts online about side effects, there are far more good surgical results, so there is absolutely no need to worry about low-probability side effects! Let’s just look at the good things and think good thoughts...🥰

Today, Dr. Park Hyung-joon, the chief physician at Jaejoon Plastic Surgery, organized the content mainly around questions that are often explained during actual consultations, and I hope it will be very helpful for those considering lower eyelid surgery!

※ Please be advised that plastic surgery may cause side effects such as inflammation, bleeding, bruising, and nerve damage depending on the individual.

※ The photos used in this video were used with the patient’s consent.

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