Suggestions to Fix Disproportionate Face and Neck Bands?
asked 2 years ago by sunnyheather in Long Beach
Latest answer by Donn Hickman, MD
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Tags: cheeks, face, jowls, neck, female, buccal, neck bands
I have a long, disproportionate face and neck bands and need advice. I have always had a long face with chubby cheeks as a youngster, and while they were squeezable and cute as a child, gravity is now starting to take a toll on them and I am starting to jowl. I'm interested in what types of treatments or surgery would be recommended for a natural look considering my type of long, bottom heavy disproportionate face structure and my age; addressing loss of volume in upper cheek region, jowling, and neck bands. I'm afraid of buccal fat removal and the damage of taking out too much fat. What are the alternatives? Thanks!
1 answer to Suggestions to Fix Disproportionate Face and Neck Bands?
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Cheek Disproportion
The youthful face is an isosceles triangle or a pentagon with the apex at the bottom. You can reduce the lower portion with buccal fat removal but that area tends to atrophy or shrink with age, and the buccal fat may be needed later in life in my experience, as the nasolabial folds become more prominent.
ou may need a neck lift and or mid face lift for the bands plus fat transfer to the cheeks to widen the base of the pentagon or isosceles triangle geometry...
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Donn Hickman, MD
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
