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I don't now that to do
This year is by far the worst year I have ever had.
Two months ago people started to ask me if i am sick.
When I saw me in the mirror two months ago I knew something was wrong, my smile did not have life, I started to examine my face, i turned my face down and I noticed what was wrong:
My cheeks were too much sunken
Inmediatly I tried to contact the Doctor who did the buccal fat removal but he had traveled.
I contacted other doctor from a near country to mine and he told me that the solution for me is fat transfer, he told me that "of course there will be lumps, it is part of the process, but with time they will disappear".
Doctor who extracted my buccal fat pads went back to my country and I told him I was very unhappy and that I wanted my old cheeks back. At first he tried to convice me that I looked good and was very defensive, then he told me he could do fat transfer and also that he "will not be responsable if fat transfer goes wrong".
(It seems like in my country doctors don't have so much experience with fat transfer to that área of the face)
I inmediatly went out from that place and started to search for help on the internet, I did not go to university for a few days, I wrote to doctors from other countries near mine and talked with three of them on skype (there is just one doctor that has told me that saw people with that same problem with buccal fat pad removal but he didn't convice me, I am planning to call him this week, he is from Argentina)
Finally I found this page and started to read all those bad reviews about buccal fat pad removal and I realized that I have made big mistake.
I went to another doctor and he told me that he has never done fat transfer under the malar bones and that a safe solution for me is hyaluronic acid.
I have hyaluronic acid in both cheeks now, at first it did not look good, there were like línes around the place where doctor put the filler, but now is a little better.
Well, as my mom says "por algo pasan las cosas".
I have also read that review about lyophilized cartilage, it is like a safe solution and a good idea. I have contacted Klinik Professor Sailer and have talked with them but the price.......it is so much expensive, taking into account that my country is one of the poorest countries in my continent.
Also, there are not photos about submalar augmentation in Professor Sailer page, so...
I don't know what to do...
I am trying to be strong and trying to do the best I can do at university.
I don't want to live putting fillers in my cheeks and spending so much money for them for the rest of my life.
Two months ago people started to ask me if i am sick.
When I saw me in the mirror two months ago I knew something was wrong, my smile did not have life, I started to examine my face, i turned my face down and I noticed what was wrong:
My cheeks were too much sunken
Inmediatly I tried to contact the Doctor who did the buccal fat removal but he had traveled.
I contacted other doctor from a near country to mine and he told me that the solution for me is fat transfer, he told me that "of course there will be lumps, it is part of the process, but with time they will disappear".
Doctor who extracted my buccal fat pads went back to my country and I told him I was very unhappy and that I wanted my old cheeks back. At first he tried to convice me that I looked good and was very defensive, then he told me he could do fat transfer and also that he "will not be responsable if fat transfer goes wrong".
(It seems like in my country doctors don't have so much experience with fat transfer to that área of the face)
I inmediatly went out from that place and started to search for help on the internet, I did not go to university for a few days, I wrote to doctors from other countries near mine and talked with three of them on skype (there is just one doctor that has told me that saw people with that same problem with buccal fat pad removal but he didn't convice me, I am planning to call him this week, he is from Argentina)
Finally I found this page and started to read all those bad reviews about buccal fat pad removal and I realized that I have made big mistake.
I went to another doctor and he told me that he has never done fat transfer under the malar bones and that a safe solution for me is hyaluronic acid.
I have hyaluronic acid in both cheeks now, at first it did not look good, there were like línes around the place where doctor put the filler, but now is a little better.
Well, as my mom says "por algo pasan las cosas".
I have also read that review about lyophilized cartilage, it is like a safe solution and a good idea. I have contacted Klinik Professor Sailer and have talked with them but the price.......it is so much expensive, taking into account that my country is one of the poorest countries in my continent.
Also, there are not photos about submalar augmentation in Professor Sailer page, so...
I don't know what to do...
I am trying to be strong and trying to do the best I can do at university.
I don't want to live putting fillers in my cheeks and spending so much money for them for the rest of my life.
Here's one photo
I'm skinny and I'm trying to gain weight, hope this can help a little
Hi, first of all sorry for my bad english, I'm a...
Hi, first of all sorry for my bad english, I'm a girl, 22 years old and in january I have made the worst mistake of my life, I had my buccal fat pad removed (bichectomía) and now I have two dents under my cheekbones, it makes me look older, now I'm trying to fix it with fat grafting or submalar cheek implants, but i have to travel to another country for this! please never do this! I'm really sad about this, I don't even want to hang out with my friends, but i try to go to my university and try to study but I can't even concentrate.
I'm not sure of fat grafting because I was reading that it can makes appear lumps.
Please think before doing this surgery, this fat will never come back.
I'm not sure of fat grafting because I was reading that it can makes appear lumps.
Please think before doing this surgery, this fat will never come back.
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