Key facts
- First determinant
- The cause found at examination: herniated fat, a hollow, fluid or lax skin, often more than one
- Approach
- Filler plan, device plan, skin-quality plan, fluid management or surgical referral, each quoted differently
- Surgery
- Not performed here; the fee for an operation is set by the surgical team after their own examination
- Zones and staging
- One zone or several, one visit or a staged plan, each itemised
- Fee basis
- Written quote after examination; the consultation can end with no treatment advised
Why does the cause decide the eye bag fee before anything else?
The fee for eye bag treatment cannot be set until the examination has named the cause, because the four things people call eye bags do not share an answer. A bulge of prolapsed orbital fat is a surgical question; a hollow along the orbital rim that casts a shadow is a filler question; soft puffiness that changes through the day is a fluid question; crepey, lax lower-lid skin is a skin-quality question. Many people have more than one, and the plan, and therefore the fee, is built from what is found.
That is the first reason this page gives determinants rather than figures. The second is regulatory: Singapore's rules on healthcare advertising restrict how prices may be advertised, and the practice gives every quote in writing after assessment, as described on the page on how fees are quoted.
Which approach is being quoted, and what does each involve?
A filler plan is quoted by product, quantity, whether the cheek is supported as well as the trough, any dissolving of earlier product, physician time and review; the determinants are set out in detail on the under-eye filler cost page and the under-eye filler guide. A device or laser plan directed at skin quality is quoted by the area, the consumables and passes it needs and the review that follows. A skin-booster plan is quoted by product and visits. Fluid management is not a procedure; it is advice and, where needed, medical review, and it carries the consultation fee only.
Where the cause is herniated fat, the honest route is referral for assessment by a plastic surgery or oculoplastic specialist. The fee for an operation is set by that team after their own examination; it is not quoted here and is not comparable with non-surgical care, because the two do different things.
“Filling a hollow helps a tear trough. Filling over a true herniation makes it worse. Which one you have decides everything that follows.”
Dr Sin YongOn under-eye assessment
What else moves the fee: zones, combinations and staging?
Beyond the approach itself, the fee moves with the number of zones, since a trough on its own differs from a trough plus cheek support or plus a skin-quality treatment; with whether approaches are combined in one plan, each itemised with its own consumables; and with staging, because a plan delivered in one visit differs from one delivered in stages with a review between them. Physician time runs through all of these, since Dr Sin Yong examines, plans and treats personally rather than delegating.
A combined plan is not automatically a larger one. An examination that finds a single clear cause produces a single-line quote; one that finds a hollow, thin skin and fluid together produces a plan with more lines and more decisions.
How does the consultation and quote work, step by step?
The sequence is set out under what happens at a consultation. The lower lid is examined at rest and in animation, the skin is stretched to separate pigment from shadow, the trough is palpated, the cheek is assessed and, where earlier filler is suspected, ultrasound is used to see it. The findings are explained, the options are set out, including waiting, no treatment and referral, and a written plan with its fee is handed over before anything is agreed. There is no same-day decision and no package.
If the examination finds that filler would make the area worse, as it does over a true herniation or over cheek mounds that hold fluid, the page on tear trough filler when not to explains why, and the only fee is the consultation fee stated when you book.
How should you compare eye bag treatment quotes?
Compare the diagnosis before the figure. Ask which of the four causes the doctor sees and why, which approach the figure describes, whether a review and any adjustment are included, what is excluded, and who performs the treatment. Two quotes for eye bags can be for entirely different problems, which is why a cheaper or dearer figure says little until the cause behind it is known.
