Phenol peels or ablative CO2 laser treatment can achieve a mini eye lift for redundant lower eyelid skin, potentially lasting two to three years.

“So on most of their face I may do a medium depth TCA peel. Especially because I can get the ears, I can get into the brows. I can feather onto the neck into the hairline. So I don't leave any area unresurfaced. And the medium depth peels are going to go just to the level of what's called the papillary dermis which is the sweet spot for tissue tightening. And peels of that sort and this is TCA or phenol TCA. And these peels penetrate and they percolate into pores. So I love peels for large pores and they'll you'll see the solution sit in the pores and they'll just go a little bit deeper just in those pores and as the tissue heals they'll contract. Then I may take a patient who has very deep peroral lines and use my fractionated ablative CO2 laser on those. And then someone with redundant skin on the lower eyelids, I may take my phenol peel and apply it there. So, in one sitting, the patient might have all three.”

“And then someone with redundant skin on the lower eyelids, I may take my phenol peel and apply it there. So, in one sitting, the patient might have all three. I'm going to pick and choose where I do it. In some patients, I may, depending if they don't want an eye lift, or I did an eye lift on them a number of years ago, and they're just starting to get redundant skin, I may just ablate that tissue with either my laser or the phenol peel and get a mini eye lift again. That might buy them two or three more years.”