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Dr. Jacono Explains Under-Eye Filler to Insider

Under-Eye Filler: What Is It?

The eyes are the most vulnerable parts of the face and are particularly susceptible to aging. While younger people have taut, smooth under-eye skin, older people suffer from hollower, more wrinkled orbital anatomy. This can make them look exhausted, morose, and irritated.

To delay the aging process, millions apply nightly creams, moisturizers, and exfoliators. More often than not, however, these products offer limited returns. Worse, they can be a hassle to apply.

Fortunately, there are countless new and innovative ways to restore diminishing under-eye volume. One of these is through the use of injectables.

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Dr Jacono Discusses Under Eye Filler

“Under-eye fillers are non-surgical cosmetic injections that use hyaluronic acid to fill in hollow facial spaces,” says Dr. Jacono. “These fillers are effective tools in the fight against aging. They are quite simple to use and last a long time: anywhere between 6 and 18 months.”

Because of their excellent results and ease of use, under-eye fillers have become incredibly popular, and not just among aging populations. In fact, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, around 3.4 million filler procedures were performed in 2020 alone. “What always surprises me is how many prospective patients come to my office with previous knowledge about fillers,” continues Dr. Jacono. “A lot of this is because of social media. So many people post about their experiences with injectables on Instagram, Facebook, and even Twitter. In a way, it seems as though we’re living through an aesthetic golden age.”

The Procedure—and Recovery

Before you go ahead and schedule an appointment, make sure to do your research! You should visit a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon who has proven experience with injectables and offers the fillers in which you are most interested. This can be Juvéderm, Belotero, Restylane, or something else.

Once you’ve chosen your doctor and scheduled an appointment, it’s important to discontinue the use of blood thinners. This includes over-the-counter medications like aspirin and ibuprofen. You should also stop using supplements like fish oil and Vitamin E.

“Try your best to avoid alcohol the night before the procedure to minimize bruising and have a speedier, more effective recovery,” Dr. Jacono advises.

When it’s time for the procedure, your doctor may ask if you would like to use numbing cream. Then, they will inject small amounts of hyaluronic acid filler into the depressed areas under each eye. “Even though the under-eye area is very sensitive, a skilled doctor knows how to minimize pain and complete treatment within a few minutes,” adds Dr. Jacono.

“The ultimate goal is for the procedure to be as little of an inconvenience to the patient as possible.”

After injection, it’s best to give yourself at least 48 hours to recover. You may experience mild bruising and swelling. In addition, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommends avoiding intense physical activity for up to 2 days. Otherwise, you can resume normal activity right away.

Takeaways

If you are interested in fuller, smoother-looking eye skin, you don’t necessarily need surgery. In fact, you could avoid a more invasive surgical procedure for several years.

“If you’re young and want to add more volume to the area under your eyes, you can opt for a hyaluronic acid injection,” says Dr. Jacono. “It’s quick, relatively painless, and can help you look refreshed.”

Dr. Jacono also uses fillers on older patients, though for this population, he recommends surgery.

“Unfortunately, as time goes on and the skin loses its natural elasticity, injections become less and less effective. Eventually, they are unable to address more glaring problems than something like a blepharoplasty—otherwise known as an eyelid lift—could reverse.”

In the end, as with everything, it’s all a question of preference and convenience!

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Doctor Jacono’s desire to become a facial plastic surgeon was solidified in grade school. There was a girl on his school bus route who was born with a cleft lip and palate deformity. Unfortunately, whenever she spoke, air and words escaped through her nose. Kids teased her and were cruel, and nobody would sit next to her on the bus, so he decided to sit with her. One day, the girl had plastic surgery and returned to school with her face repaired. Suddenly, classmates saw her face instead of her deformity and immediately treated her normally. It was at that moment that Doctor Jacono knew he wanted to fix people’s faces and change their lives. This is why he has gone on over twenty plastic surgery missions to poor countries around the world and provided free cleft lip and surgery for birth defects to over 500 children.

Because of this experience in his childhood, Doctor Jacono understands that one of our basic needs as human beings is to feel confident about our appearance. It’s is Doctor Jacono’s passion to help his patients achieve their facial aesthetic goals, creating natural appearing results to either enhance their beauty and proportion or rejuvenate their aging appearance. He is a world-renowned leader in the field of facial plastic surgery and only performs surgery on the face, not the body. He has innovated many facelift, eyelid lift, and rhinoplasty surgical techniques, publishing in leading peer reviewed literature and lecturing at plastic surgery conferences all over the world. He is committed to sharing what he has learned teaching surgeons from around the world.

His approach is to maintain your uniqueness and facial identity; it is still you just better. To do this he uses a customized, bespoke approach to each patient employing the most minimally invasive, innovative, and cutting-edge technology. Doctor Jacono has never performed the same procedure on any two of the thousands of patients he has treated. He is committed to providing his surgical expertise in a caring, supportive environment with a professional staff that has you as their focus and concern.