Can Cheek Implants Replace a Cheek Lift?

asked 1 year ago by DeniJ
Latest answer by Philip Young, MD
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I want to know if cheek implants replace a cheek lift. It seems they are very similar and have a mutual goal, to bring projection and to subtly lift by supporting the tissues. I do need a cheek lift but I prefer to do it with cheek implants. Would this be alright?

7 answers to Can Cheek Implants Replace a Cheek Lift?

Cheek implants can replace a cheek lift

I strongly believe that a volume loss plays a big part of aging in the cheek area. Cheek lifts in my opinion to do what you want. It doesn't reverse the aging process in the correct order and manner by which you aged. There is a process of aging or pattern that is not reversed by traditional procedures.

Philip Young, MD
Bellevue Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Cheek plumping: how do you know if you would benefit from an implant, a lift, or an injectable filler?

A cheek (or "malar") implant does completely different things than a cheek lift. Implants are used to significantly increase the volume and shape of the cheekbones. Patients who are good candidates for cheek implants are usually younger and were born with flat or even pushed-back cheekbones (Sylvester Stallone is a good example.) Their eyes can look bulging as a result because they don't have muchd cheek volume. On the other hand, cheek lifts are used to elevate sagging soft... more

Ariel N. Rad, MD, PhD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Cheek Implants or Cheek Lift

Cheek implants and a cheek lift will both improve cheek projection and contour. A cheek lift is the procedure of choice in a patient who has sagging of the skin and muscle causing fullness of the mid-cheek and increased depth of the crease between the nose and the corner of the mouth.

Richard W. Fleming, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Cheek implants correct flat cheeks:cheek lifts lift sagging skin.

Cheek implants correct flat cheeks:cheek lifts lift sagging skin. If you don't have much sagging with large naso-labial depressions, then you can have cheek implants.

Toby Mayer, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Cheek Implants are not a subsitute for a Cheek Lift

Cheek Implants are intended to FILL and add volume to the cheeks. Although they may provide a small lift vector that is not their goal. A Cheek Lift is an procedure which corrects sagging. While the two types of procedure have a minor overlap, one should not be used in place of another. As an aside with fillers and fat grafting being refined, cheek implants along with their potential downsides (cost, infection, need for fixation, rotation, nerve damage etc) have become considerably... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

Cheek implant vs Cheek lifthtt

While it may seem that both procedures give the same end result, in many cases that is not the case. If your cheeks are underdeveloped, then implants would be a more appropriate choice. However, if your cheek tissue has descended due to aging, a cheek lift would reposition the tissue back to the right place. An implant in this situation may result in an unnatural appearance. See a Board Certified plastic surgeon for a complete evaluation since these two procedures are not... more

Karol A. Gutowski, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Cheek implant

You are on the right track. A major reason for cheek sagging is deflation (or loss of volume) of the cheek, therefore replacing that volume with cheek implants (or filler injection) can "lift" the cheeks. The effect of implant is also more permanent than if you had a cheek lift surgery. Dr Taban

Mehryar (Ray) Taban, MD, FACS
Los Angeles Oculoplastic Surgeon

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