How Are Eye Bags and Puffy Eyes Removed Traditionally?
Eye bag removal has traditionally been done with a plastic surgery operation called a blepharoplasty. During the traditional eye bag surgery the plastic surgeon made an incision on the lower eyelid just beneath the eye lashes, exposed the underlying fat causing the eye bag or puffy eye, and removed the fat and also removed some of the skin which had been stretched into the eye bag. Although the blepharoplasty does remove the eye bag or puffiness, there are several problems with this traditional eye bag or puffy eye surgery. First, the incision through the eyelid weakens the eyelid skin and muscle which supports the eyelid and holds the eyelid tight against the eyeball. As a result of weakening of the support for the eyelid, the eyelid often turns down or sags after a lower eyelid blepharoplasty. Technically this is called an ectropion or scleral show, but in lay terms it is referred to as the sad eyed look or hound dog eyes. It is a terrible stigma of the old scalpel blepharoplasty ope
