Invasive and Non-Surgical Eye Bag Removal Methods

There is always a price to pay. This applies even, if not more so, to human’s pursuit of beauty. Understandably the rich and elite few who could afford exorbitant costs of vanity products and procedures were the very limited market for these items and treatments. Due however to scientific breakthroughs that have made technology affordable and readily accessible, the costs of these items and services has significantly dropped within reach of even the average consumer. Sophisticated state of the art technologies have likewise reduced of not completely eliminated the risks of cosmetic surgeries. Either these or there is simply a growing number of average consumers more bent on spending for to achieve their notion of beauty. 

Whether as a testament of cheaper technologies or indication of increasing sense of social insecurity, various cosmetic procedures have increased worldwide and seem to suggest that they are becoming more and more common fixture of modern commerce. Today cosmetic surgeries and special beauty treatments have become commonplace services availed by a mass market across different demographics in growing number of salons and beauty centers. 

The Most Common Cosmetic Surgery 

Worldwide, eye bag removal is one of the most common cosmetic surgery around and one of the most in-demand procedures particularly in Asian countries like Korea and Singapore. Eye bags, or lumps under eyes, are mild swelling or puffiness that happens or develops naturally with age. As people grows old, tissues around the eyes, including some of the muscles supporting the eyelids, weaken and the fat that helps support the eyes move into the lower eyelids which causes the lids to appear swollen or puffy. It also appears dark and therefore generally undesirable. 

Eye bag removal is an invasive eye lid surgery procedure, technically referred to as blepharoplasty surgery that removes these fats and reduce bagginess of the lower eyelids. In the most common procedure of eye bag removal, excess skin and fatty tissues are removed from under the eye to improve appearance and take away signs of ageing. The procedure is generally effective since such eye bag surgery also smoothens crow’s feet, those wrinkles around the eyes and therefore makes patients look younger. 

The Most Common Methods 

In Singapore, the most common procedure of eye bag removal is an surgical evasive procedure involves making incisions just beneath the eyelashes, removal of about 2 millimetres of the skin, and exaction of fats from the lower lid so that the area do not look too sunken. The canthopexy on the other hand, is a much simpler method that involves tightening the lower lid and elevating its position by ‘stitching’ the muscles on the lower lid to a higher position on a bony area to prevent it from sagging. Although there are also surgical procedures stitching, these incisions are superficial and therefore considered none invasive or non-surgical. 

Other non surgical eye bag removal methods in Singapore include pinch eye lid surgery that simply involves extracting fat through the inside of the eyelid and then removing a ‘pinch’ of skin from the area without cutting deeper into tissues or extracting muscles as with traditional surgical methods. 

And then too there is the laser blepharoplasty, which as its name implies uses laser technology to remove eye bags and is growing in popularity, Aside from being safe, the methods is considered by many as more effective than other methods since it is also a scar-less method. As a minor trade off though, laser blepharoplasty usually require considerably longer operation and healing time.