If you are thinking about dermal fillers to treat tear duct troughs using dermal fillers, then you want a cosmetic injector who is knowledgeable and knows what they are doing. Our clinical aesthetic team have years of experience and we are one of the leaders in the field in Brisbane.

Queensland’s largest cosmetic clinic, Cosmetic Image Clinics in our award winning Aquarius Health and Medispa, voted best Medispa for 2014 by the Australasian Spa Association is owned and operated by Dr Ingrid Tall who has over 20 years of experience in the cosmetic medicine industry. This expertise in the cosmetic industry counts and dermal fillers and muscle relaxant therapy is the backbone of our business.

So whether you want to alleviate those dark circles, bags or hollows under your eyes using non-surgical dermal fillers, then make Queensland’s largest cosmetic clinic, Cosmetic Image Clinics your preferred provider.

Often many people blame those dark circles under the eyes on tiredness and lack of sleep or a ‘big night out’. In fact, mostly these dark circles and bags under the eyes are caused by genetics and often run in the family. In some cases though, it can be attributed to ageing, lack of sleep and lifestyle.

Few people appreciate that dermal fillers can help in this area and think that surgery is the only solution. Lower eyelid surgery can be very helpful in situations where there is lax skin or a ‘bag’ that consists of herniated fat which has prolapsed forward between the bony orbit under the eye and the eyeball.

Surgery is often used in this situation to help remove excess skin and tighten it and also to remove the fatty bag under the eyes, however many people are not interested in undergoing surgery or simply cannot afford it and prefer m

Dermal fillers can gently inflate the area under the eye to either soften the hollowing or lessen the darkness by thickening up the layers between the darker underlying muscle and the thin skin overlying the muscle.

In effect, it replaces the missing subcutaneous fat that has lessened over time with the retraction and thinning of the underlying fat pad. It also can smooth the sharp demarcation between the bulging bag under the eye and the adjoining skin, which softens the junction between the two areas.

Traditionally dermal fillers are injected into the hollows under the eyes or into the tear duct trough.

It is important not to use too much filler in this area due to the risk of over inflation during the next two to six weeks with the filler attracting water into the area.

Nowadays we know ‘less is more’ and it is important to under correct the area with dermal filler to allow the dermal filler to slowly absorb water over the next two to four weeks. This gradually plumps up the area. A specific filler is recommended for this area which has a lower water absorption tendency than the other fillers in the market.

You can often see an immediate slight improvement after the procedure; however it is a gradual process where water is absorbed into the area. It is difficult to predict how much water will be absorbed into the dermal filler in that area therefore an improvement, not ‘perfection’ can only be expected.

It is very important to have realistic expectations of what can be achieved. Because the water absorption into the dermal filler is a slow process, patients sometimes quickly ‘forget’ how they looked prior to the filler and do not appreciate the difference until they look at their ‘before’ photos.