I write this review in excitement but swollen neck as I await my results! I am 24 years old, asian, huge cheeks, and have what I would like to call a poor fat distribution. I am definitely slightly overweight as I am 145 pounds and only 5’1, but my face has always held onto fat more than the rest of my body. When I was in college and most of my life I was very skinny, but always with wide face and huge cheeks which made me self conscious in photos, and I felt like it added 10 pounds to my face. On top of that, in recent years I have gained some weight and although I have lost some weight and healthier now, my face has remained the same and I have a double chin and fat on the front side of my neck. My face I felt didn’t match my body, so I began looking into procedures like Kybella, which I actually had done in January and March. My results were actually quite impressive, but I knew that if I really wanted to change my face shape, I needed to get the buccal fat removal and lipo like my doctor recommended. The Kybella gave me a head start, but to be honest the amount of fat I wanted melted away I would have needed at least double (and I had already received 7 vials!) so I knew the most economic and quickest option would be to have this surgery. I got the surgery done in California, and the doctor is a surgeon practicing for 20 years trainee in South Korea. We got along very well and she is Korean like me so naturally after many consultations at different offices, I as drawn to going with her for Kybella and then eventually surgery. She credited my Kybella ($3k) treatments toward my surgery so in total for surgery after the credit I ended up paying about $4k for buccal fat removal and neck/chin liposuction. I got the surgery done 5 days ago (writing this on a Monday and I got it on a Thursday) and I am still swollen so of course no results yet. But I will document my results and journey of healing on here and please reach out to me if you have questions!
Updated on 22 May 2019:
Coming out of surgery I was pretty delusional from all the sedation drugs I was on, so only managed to take one pic and then went home and literally passed out from 4pm to 11am the next day! Best sleep ever haha. When I got up the next morning I showered, removed my bandages and compression garment and cleaned myself. Warning: you will leak fluid so sleep on a towel and elevated pillows! I’ve posted some photos I took with my compression band off of what I looked like the next day (took these at night). Surprisingly no real bruising, just cuts from the small incisions under my chin. And of course swollen. I used Arnica Gel and applied to the lipo and swollen areas like peolle on here suggest. I wasn’t in too much pain and didn’t take any pain meds which was great. Day 1 post surgery I did go back to my doctor to check everything and she made sure everything looked good, it was fast and I went back to rest.
Updated on 22 May 2019:
See below review
Updated on 22 May 2019:
Trying to post surgery pics but they haven’t been uploading!
Updated on 24 May 2019:
People are telling me it looks like I’ve lost weight.. I m not even supposed to see results for another 3 weeks but it’s definitely nice to hear!
Updated on 20 Sep 2019:
Wow do I feel a lot better about the way I look! My cheekbones being more defined and contoured makes me feel great. I’ve also had so many people tell me I look like I’ve lost a lot of weight, probably because my double chin is significantly less. I’m so happy to finally not feel so gross about my side profile anymore! I’m hoping to see continued results over the next two months as well.
Updated on 20 Sep 2019:
Love this before and after! Even though it’s not the same angle, you can really tell how much chub I lost and how much more defined my chin and neck are! I will never have that “perfect” v line unless I lose some more weight and get the jaw shaving surgery, but for now I am very happy with my results!