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Forums => Dermarolling / Microneedling => Topic started by: debc on April 26, 2010, 11:41:57 PM
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Hi, do you know whether derma rolling can have a beneficial (or negative) effect on festoons under the eye area (festoons are those pouches that form under the eye as we age). Thanks
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Bags under the lower eyelids are usually a combination of fat protrusion and excess (saggy) skin.
Unfortunately a dermaroller cannot fix fat protrusion, neither it can fix receding fat tissue (hollow spots).
A dermaroller can thicken the skin and it can slightly tighten the skin but it cannot affect adipose tissue (fat tissue).
If you roll under your eyes, be careful: When you put your finger under your eye, you'll feel a bone. Do not roll closer to your eye than where that bone is. Pull/stretch your skin downwards from the eye with your other hand and roll it with the other.
To treat the bags under the eyes bags:
Fillers such as Restylan injected into the grooves below the bags will make those bags much less prominent. The fillers will last up to a year and then have to be re-injected.
Also, autologous fat can be used to fill the hollow places and grooves.
Or you have to get a lower blepharoplasty. They will remove the excess skin, reposition the fat etc.
Whatever you do - choose your surgeon carefully.