I'm an 18 year old guy but I still have a lot of fat on my face. My parents don't have fat faces so will I loose it soon?

The cheek dimples are usually produced by the muscles of the facial expression that make us to smile. Therefore unless the face becomes paralyzed, those dimples, won't disappear with facial surgery including buccal fat pad removal.Soft tissue fillers have been used "eliminate cheek dimples", but...

"Excess of fat" in the cheeks could be secondary to multiple causes like: in deed excess of fat in the face ( large buccal fat pad removal), large size masseter muscles (giving fullness in the cheeks close to the angle of the jaw) and or wide jaw bone ( that is being confused with "excess of...

Visible signs of mild aging usually start showing up once we turn into the 30s. As we start to age the soft tissues of the mid face start to sag, thus creating fulness of the lower face at the level of the jaw line ( this is called jowls).  Additionally, if excess of lower fat is present,...

Female patients, specially asian background one with thin faces would benefit from conservative buccal fat removal to achieve a more thinner V shaped face. Buccal fat not always must be removed completely during the procedure. In my practice I generally remove buccal fat in a conservative ...

The results of buccal fat removal in regard of correction of chubby cheeks depends on 3 main factors: 1) amount of buccal fat removed, 2) prominence of cheek bones and 3) body weight (total body fat). The amount of buccal fat removed impacts the result. In thin patients partial buccal...

Swelling, bruising and numbness of the face could happen right after buccal fat removal. The duration of the symptoms depends on the extend one the surgery and the type of local anesthesia used. When lidocaine is used as local anesthesia, the numbness of the face could last up to 5 days. When...