What is tear trough

Many of you may not have heard of tear troughs, but some of you who pay more attention to it will know about them. In fact, the tear trough is a groove near the side of our eyes near the nose. If the tear trough is too deep, it will make the eye bags look deeper, so some of you will choose to fill the tear trough during micro-surgery.

The tear trough refers to a groove that starts from the inner corner of the eye and appears on the nose side of the lower eyelid. It is caused by the atrophy and sagging of the soft tissue at the lower edge of the orbital septum. Some people may even have it extend to the cheeks. Due to the contrast between the depression of the tear trough and the surrounding skin, the lower eyelid tissue looks a little bloated and bulging, which can easily be mistaken for eye bags, but in fact it is just an illusion caused by the deepening of the tear trough.

Tear troughs are generally congenital, and people with thinner eye skin often have more obvious tear troughs than the average person. However, tear troughs are usually not very obvious when you are young. This is because young people have more subcutaneous fat and tighter skin, so there is only a vague outline. However, as we age, subcutaneous fat gradually shrinks, the skin becomes thinner and sags due to reduced elasticity, and the tear trough on the inside of the lower eyelid becomes obvious, and "eye bags" appear.

Improvement Methods

The appearance of tear grooves can easily make people look haggard. Through modern plastic surgery, autologous fat or hyaluronic acid injections can be used to fill the tear grooves.

Flat dents. The disadvantage is that both autologous fat and hyaluronic acid have absorption problems.

How to reduce tear trough

There are two main steps to facial massage to reduce tear troughs:

1. Apply a firming product first, then use your index finger to massage in a spiral motion from the corner of the eye to the middle of the ear, and do this 10 times.

2. Next, use your index finger to start from the top of the nose and massage in a spiral motion diagonally upwards to the temples. Then gently press the temples on both sides. Do this 10 times.