Scientists once thought that eyebags or eye circles are caused by a weakening of ligaments that are associated with the eyeball and eyelid. This is the reason why cosmetic surgeons asked to fix bags under the eyes of patients use a muscle or ligament tightening technique to flatten out the unsightly bags.Now, it seems that the surgeons could be doing something else that's more effective, and this is the removal of excess fat that accumulates with age. Yes, new studies show that there's more fat under the eyes as people age and this is apparently what contributes to the bagginess effect. What most surgeons used to do is to remedy the sag in ways that require little or no removal of the excess bulging fat. Thus, it's not really the source of the bulge that's remedied. In the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, researchers said there were nothing to indicate it was the right approach.
According to Dr. Sean Darcy of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a plastic surgery resident at the University of California, Irvine, what most surgeons were taught concerned the weakening of the orbital septum and the herniation-of-fat theory. Darcy's new study on baggy eyes, which showed how fat under the eyes accumulate with age, may bring about new methods of skin care and treatment for baggy eyes that would require the removal of fat.
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