How Can I Get a Wider Face?

   You may want to consider placement of temporary filler before having fat transfer, getting implants, or having something even more invasive.  However, an exam and a realistic discussion of goals and expectations would be needed before anything could really be recommended.  Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

The first thing to understand is that it can be difficult to "change" your given face.  This is mainly because of underlying bone and fatty tissue that cannot really be changed.  However, some things can be done including cheek implants, chin augmentation, and fat injections.  It is important to be evaluated by a board certified facial plastic or plastic surgeon to determine what exactly can be done.

Because the underlying skeletal structure of your face determines the width and shape of facial features, not much can be done to produce a wider face. However, facial fat transfer, cheek implants and dermal fillers are all viable options to add more definition and volume to different areas of the face. The recommended procedure will depend on the areas you would like to augment with plastic surgery.
If you would like to learn more about your available options, schedule an appointment with a board-certified plastic surgeon to receive an evaluation. Hope this helps.

Hello! To sculpt improved aesthetic contours and balance, one can use fillers (versatile, precise but temporary), fat or implants (for the temple, cheekbone and lateral jawline/sculpted mandibular angle). Implants are permanent and come in different sizes but can accentuate asymmetries. Each procedure has risks and benefits; I recommend finding an experienced facial plastic surgeon and discussing which would be suit your features. Good luck!

Ideal face shape is a round or heart shaped face, high cheek boes, nice sweep to the cheek, and clean jaw line.
You can achieve that with fat transfer.

 Hi, I have performed many facial shaping procedures using dermal fillers, silastic facial implants (cheek implants, chin implants, lip implants), liposuction and/or facelifts for over 30 years.  Following my beauty principles, men look chiseled and handsome with angularity in the cheeks, chin and mandibular angles.  Non smiling photos of your face from the front and side would help in the evaluation.  The following procedures can create a more ruggedly handsome face.
Cheek augmentation with dermal fillers or silastic cheek implants to add angularity to the cheeks and mid face.  Liposuction can be combined to reduce any excess fat to further shape the cheeks and face.
Chin augmentation, using a chin implant, to add projection to the chin creating harmony and balance to the lower face.  I have performed many facial shaping procedures, including Chin Augmentation with dermal fillers or silastic chin implants, for over 30 years.  When the chin is weak, this creates an imbalance making the nose appear larger, the mid face top heavy, the lower face looks short, de-emphasizes the lips and allows early formation of a "double chin".  Proper placement of a silastic chin implant adds forward projection to the chin thereby creating harmony and balance to the lower face.  Using the same incision, liposuction can be performed to reduce the fat and further shape the neck.  Excess skin, from below the chin, can also be removed through the same incision.  I have found that placement of a silastic chin implant, through a small curved incision under the chin (also allows excess skin removal) to be very safe, quick, highly effective and far less invasive than a sliding genioplasty (requires extensive tissue dissection, bone cuts and placement of metal screws and plates to secure the cut bone segments).  I perform chin implant surgery in 30 minutes or less, often using a local anesthetic alone.  In my opinion, you are a good candidate for chin implant surgery.  
Augmentation of the mandibular angles using a dermal filler (jaw implants have too many unwanted side effects IMHO) to add volume, angularity and flare to the jaw line.
 Simply filling in every concave area of the face with dermal fillers will not make the face more angular and handsome.  In fact, it can often lead to a huffy, round, soft face with distorted ratio proportions of facial features. I have performed many facial shaping procedures using dermal fillers, facial implants (cheek, chin), liposuction and/or facelifts for over 30 years.  In my experience and despite its recent increase in popularity, fat transfer (fat injection) offers "far" less of a reliable and predictable volume for facial shaping than an off the shelf dermal filler or silastic facial implant.  For that reason, I do not use fat to shape the cheeks, chin, lips or jaw line.  Tissue physiology is quite simple.  Tissue requires a blood supply in and out as well as lymphatic connections to remain viable and alive.  Once fat is removed from the body all of these things have been disrupted.  Just because the removed fat is mixed with PRP or something else doesn't make the blood and lymphatics magically re-appear.  The fat at that point is not living tissue which means that it's prone to being dissolved by the body (most likely in an uneven and unpredictable manner).  Injecting fat back into the face does not create the required elements to make the fat living tissue once again.  So the argument that fat is alive and viable in the face once it's been removed and re-injected makes no sense to me as a physician and surgeon.
 The other issue that I have with fat transfer is the lack of precision.  Fat is thick by nature which means it's not the same consistency as an off the shelf dermal filler.  Fat injections use an increased volume injected in an attempt to compensate for the volume loss that "will" happen.  This means a lack of specific shape and volume that simply can not begin to compare with the specificity of using a silastic facial implant of a "known" shape and volume.  In that regard fat offers too much of an unknown to make it a reliable and predictable method for facial shaping.  There's a significant difference between a 3mm and 5mm thick cheek implant.  You can imagine the magnitude of difference there is between retaining 60% of 25cc's of fat versus 35%.  In my humble opinion, I just don’t see how fat could possibly be used to precisely shape facial features? Hope this helps.