EYEBAG SURGERY BY FAT REDISTRIBUTION

Postoperative pain is mild and well controlled with oral painkillers. There will be swelling and bruising. Stitches are removed after one week. You can start wearing eye makeup after ten days and this can effectively camouflage the residual swelling and bruising so that you don’t need to wear sunglasses to conceal your eyes anymore. So the effective downtime is about ten days. Exercise may be resumed after three weeks.

In expert hands, this is a safe procedure, with minimal blood loss and risk of infection. Temporary blurred vision can sometimes occur but this usually resolves within the first week. Vision is not otherwise affected by the procedure. Swelling of the transparent membrane over the white of the eye occurs occasionally. This is known as chemosis. It usually resolves with steroid eyedrops and gentle manual compression of the eye which will you will be taught to do yourself during your recovery if necessary.

One possible complication is that the lower eyelid may become retracted downwards during the healing process. This can happen if too much skin is removed or if the lower eyelid is not sufficiently tightened upwards. To minimize this risk, Dr Huang is deliberately conservative with skin removal and routinely makes sure that the lower eyelid is well tightened upwards. Therefore, in his hands, this complication is uncommon. Even if it happens, it tends to be mild and is correctible by daily stretching of the lower eyelid in an upward direction during recovery. The risk of this being a permanent complication or one that requires further surgical correction is rare.