How can I make my face look shorter besides cheek fillers?

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I have a very long face. I know that I have a large forehead which adds to the length. I want a hair transplant surgery but for now I am focused on my midface, jaw/chin. I have had cheek fillers before and I still see a slight effect but I didnt like the results and my face still looked long. My philtrum is abnormally long as I measured it and it was about 2.3 cm but I dont want the ugly scars of a lip lift. Would lip fillers alone give the illusion of a shorter face? What else can I do?

Toby Mayer, MD · Answer

High hairline , long nose and philtrum and sad eyes. Your face can be made much more feminine and attractive with The Irregular Trichophytic Forehead Lift with Hairline Lowering. Your philtrum can be shortened using the M type Lip Lift with no noticeable scar, and you nose can be shortened and the tip refined if you like. See a very experienced surgeon familiar with these techniques who can show you dozens of photos of his work.

Jason Emer, MD · Answer

you can do alot here. fillers for contouring of your face, hairline lowering surgically or hairline transplant and jawline surgery or implants. I suggest you get a formal consult. I do not see that your face is overly long IMO.

most of my younger patients do buccal fat pad reduction, facetite/liposuction of the neck, and fillers to chin/cheeks/jawline/temples,  to give them a more chiseled face.  see my IG and links. at home derma-rolling should be started to Improve texture and tone and tightening along jawline (see link where we have a recommended daily skincare and weekly MTS + anteageMD derma-rolling protocol).

For facial slimming a combination of treatments are always needed.  Options include:

1. Buccal fat pad removal to reduce fat on the lower face
2. Factite or Renuvion/J Plasma to tighten the lower face, jawline, and chin to reduce fat and give the jawline and neck tightening and shaping.
3. Botox to the masseter to reduce the muscular size of the jaw giving the face an illusion of being more slender
4. Fillers to the jawline, chin, cheeks, temples and brow help to shape the face and make it more angled and defined

most of my younger patients consider...
5. deep microneelding RF like morpheus every 2-3 months forever to further improvement tightening
6. early face/neck lift if you want a really tight contour and the most extreme improvement in jawline and neck shaping
7. threads, PDO or Instalift, after neck surgery/facetite to further improve the outcomes and give them long term collagen production and shaping
8. Thermage (radio frequency heating) and Ultherapy (ultrasound muscle tightening) yearly to prevent sagging in the future

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