Recently I have received several reports of serious complications occurring in people who have had soft tissue fillers like Collagen and Restylane injected into their eyelids to correct dark circles under the eyes and other lower eyelid aging changes. Although the companies that manufacture the soft tissue fillers specifically recommend that Doctors not inject soft [...]

Blepharoplasty or eyelid tuck, a plastic surgery operation that is done to rejuvenate the eyelid and remove eyelid bags and dark circles under the eyes is the third most common cosmetic plastic surgery operation performed in the United States. This operation is usually the first facial rejuvenation or skin rejuvenation surgery that most people consider, [...]

educate the consumer by exposing commonly held myths about the plastic surgery operation known as the blepharoplasty so that people considering eyelid rejuvenation will seek the appropriate treatment

Blepharoplasty is a plastic surgical operation done on the eyelids to correct dark cirlces under the eyes and remove loose skin or hooding of the upper eyelids and also to remove “bags” from the lower eyelids. Blepharoplasty is one of the most common plastic surgery operations done in the United States and has traditionally been [...]

Millions of people worldwide are concerned about Dark Circles Under the Eyes. Dark Circles Under The Eyes give the face a Tired Look and often make the eyes look hollow”
As we age the dark circle which starts underneath the eyelid near the nose begins to move down into the cheek creating a depression called the [...]

There is much confusion regarding what people mean when they say they have dark circles under the eyes, often referred to as the tired look.
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There are 4 different conditions which can cause dark skin under the eyelid which people call dark circles under the eyes:
1. Dark purple skin color on the lower eyelid [...]

Traditional lower eyelid surgery called lower eyelid blepharoplasty or eyelid lift, is done to correct the eyelid aging changes, removing bags and dark circles and correcting the tired look. When blepharoplasty is done through an incision on the lower eyelid using a scalpel leaves a visible scar on the lower eyelid just under the eyelashes.
A [...]

Traditional scalpel blepharoplasty involves cutting and removing skin and fat from the lower eyelid to remove excess skin and fat and to remove eyelid bags in an operation called eyelid plasty. While this plastic surgery operation does remove skin and fat, the scalpel technique also creates a scar on the lower eyelid and weakens the [...]

The eyelid surgery called blepharoplasty or eyelid tuck is a very effective procedure for removing eyelid bags, puffy eyelids, and loose skin. When a procedure called arcus marginalis release is added, dark circles can also be improved.
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The benefit of a transconjunctival approach, that is making the incision on the inside of the eyelid [...]

Traditional scalpel blepharoplasty of the lower eyelid involves cutting away skin to remove excess baggy skin from the eyelid.
A newer technique using a laser incision on the inside of the lower eyelid allows the surgeon to shrink or tighten the lower eyelid tissues from the inside, avoiding the need for a visible incision on [...]