Lower eyelid and eye bags
Lower eyelid surgery removes or moves the fat that makes bags under the eyes and tightens loose lower lid skin, through an incision inside the lid or below the lashes.
Lower eyelid and eye bags procedures
Each page covers what the operation treats, how it is done, the evidence, the risks and the recovery, with a PubMed link on every claim.
Lower blepharoplasty
Lower blepharoplasty treats bags under the eyes by removing or repositioning the orbital fat that bulges below the eye, and by removing excess skin when present. It is done mainly for appearance, for adults who see bags…
Transconjunctival blepharoplasty
Transconjunctival blepharoplasty removes or repositions lower eyelid fat through an incision on the inside of the lid, leaving no visible skin scar. It suits patients whose main problem is bulging fat rather than excess…
Fat repositioning in lower blepharoplasty
Fat repositioning moves lower eyelid fat over the orbital rim instead of removing it, to fill the tear trough and blend the lid-cheek junction. Loeb first described sliding the fat pad over the rim and grafting fat to…
Tear trough and lid-cheek junction surgery
Tear trough surgery smooths the groove between the lower eyelid and the cheek by releasing the ligament that tethers it and filling it with the patient's own fat, either moved on its blood supply from the eye bag or…
Festoons and malar bags
A festoon is a redundant fold of skin, orbicularis oculi muscle and trapped fluid that hangs from the lower eyelid onto the cheek; malar mounds and malar edema are related, less mobile swelling over the cheekbone, and…
Under-eye filler versus lower blepharoplasty
Tear trough filler injects hyaluronic acid (HA) gel to fill the groove between the lower lid and cheek; it is a same-day, non-surgical option for volume loss without significant skin excess. Lower blepharoplasty with…
Lower eyelid and eye bags research by topic
PubMed papers tagged by topic, newest first on each topic page.
Lower blepharoplasty
Lower blepharoplasty treats lower eyelid bags by removing or moving fat through the skin or inside the lid.
Transconjunctival blepharoplasty
Transconjunctival blepharoplasty reaches the lower eyelid fat through an incision inside the lid, with no outer scar.
Tear trough
Tear trough papers treat the groove between the lower lid and the cheek with fat, fillers or ligament release.
Fat repositioning
Fat repositioning moves lower eyelid fat over the orbital rim instead of removing it, to smooth the lid-cheek junction.
Festoons
Festoon papers treat the folds of loose skin and muscle that sag over the cheek below the lower lid.