Derma rolling and festoons

[debc]

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

[SarahVaughter]

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.