To help women ‘erase’ worries about long, deep tear troughs making their faces look dull and older than their age, modern aesthetics has found ways to remedy this flaw. Let’s refer to 2 methods for erasing tear troughs that women currently trust:
Erase tear troughs with autologous fat
This method is often indicated in cases where women have deep and long tear troughs accompanied by eye bags. The doctor will perform lower eyelid surgery and inject autologous fat or rearrange the distribution of fat in the lower eyelid area to help eliminate eye bags and fill the tear troughs.
The method of erasing tear troughs with autologous fat has advantages such as:
- High safety: Autologous fat has 100% compatibility with the body. Therefore, when this type of fat is injected into the body, it minimizes rejection reactions, ensuring safety for the client.
- Maintains effectiveness for many years: After injecting fat into the lower eyelid, this fat will be nourished by the body, stimulating collagen production. Therefore, you can maintain the effectiveness of fat injection for many years.
- Minimizes pain, requires little recovery time: During the fat injection process into the eye socket, clients are given anesthesia to minimize pain and discomfort. After that, you do not need much recovery time and can resume normal activities as directed by the doctor.
- Combines to address accompanying eye bags (if any): Clients with eye bags will have the doctor arrange and redistribute the amount of fat to fill the tear troughs without needing to take additional autologous fat from other areas.
However, the solution of erasing tear troughs with autologous fat is not suitable for clients who are too thin and have too little fat.
Here is the process of performing tear trough correction with autologous fat:
Step 1: The doctor consults and examines in-depth the condition of the lower eyelid with long deep tear troughs and whether there are eye bags, to advise on the appropriate method.
Step 2:
1. For clients with simple long deep tear troughs: Perform autologous fat injection to fill the tear trough area
- The doctor takes autologous fat from the client’s abdomen or thigh and performs centrifugation to extract the most suitable fat cells.
- The doctor determines the surgical site, then cleans and anesthetizes to help the client minimize pain and discomfort.
- The doctor proceeds to inject fat into the lower eyelid to fill the tear trough.
2. For clients with long deep tear troughs combined with eye bags, excess skin, and sagging lower eyelids: It is advisable to perform lower eyelid surgery to treat eye bags, excess sagging skin combined with redistributing the amount of fat in the lower eyelid to fill the tear troughs without needing to take fat from other areas.
- The doctor determines the surgical site, then cleans and anesthetizes to help the client minimize pain and discomfort.
- The doctor proceeds to remove excess skin, redistribute, and rearrange the amount of fat in the eye area that needs to be filled and treat eye bags.
- The doctor stitches the wound along the lower eyelid line to ensure no scars are left after surgery.
Step 3: The client receives post-operative care and is guided by the doctor on home care and scheduled for a follow-up visit to remove stitches after 5 days.
Erase tear troughs with HA (Filler)
Erasing tear troughs with HA is usually applied for cases with simple long, deep tear troughs or accompanied by hollow lower eyelids due to lack of fat. This method uses the main ingredient, Hyaluronic Acid, to fill the tear troughs and restore youthful beauty to the face.
The solution of erasing tear troughs with Filler has advantages such as:
- Short execution time: The Filler injection process takes only about 30 minutes.
- Brings quick results: After about 3 days of HA injection, clients can see the results of plump, youthful tear troughs.
- Minimizes pain: The doctor performs Filler injections using a specialized ultra-fine needle, helping clients reduce pain and discomfort.
- No need for much recovery time: Since HA injection is a minimally invasive cosmetic method, clients do not need much recovery time after the procedure.
However, HA injections to fill tear troughs can only be maintained for about 6 – 12 months. After that, clients need to inject again to achieve the desired results.
Let’s refer to the process of performing HA injections to fill tear troughs below:
Step 1: Clients are examined and the doctor checks the condition of the tear troughs.
Step 2: Clients are explained and checked the medication before injection to ensure the medication is genuine.
Step 3: The doctor determines the area of the lower eyelid that needs HA injection, while also determining the appropriate dosage of Filler.
Step 4: The doctor proceeds to inject HA into the determined position to fill the tear trough area.
Step 5: Clients are monitored after the injection. After that, the doctor will guide you on how to care for yourself at home and schedule a follow-up visit.