Will chewing gum reduce my lower cheek fat?

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I'm an extremely skinny girl but don't know why my lower cheeks are chubby. I can't think of losing weight as I'm already very skinny. I want to get a slimmer face in a natural way. Will chewing gum help me reduce my lower cheek fat? Plz suggest something

Ali Riza Öreroglu, MD · Answer

Chewing gum is not likely to affect the size of your buccal fat pads. Buccal fat pads are usually not affected by changes in weight or exercise. However chewing gum can cause your masseter muscles get larger thus creating a wider lower face, which is the contrary of what you are trying to achieve. Surgical reduction or removal of the buccal fat pads can provide slimming in the lower face.Hope this helps,Ali Rıza Öreroğlu, MD FEBOPRASEuropean and Turkish Board Certified Aesthetic, Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeonIstanbul, Turkey

John Mesa, MD · Answer

Buccal fat is a fat pocket in the lower anterior face that is "resistant" to decrease in size due to diet or exercise in most of the cases.Chewing gum will NOT make the buccal fat to reduce the size of thebuccal fat. If that would be true, nobody would do buccal fat removal plastic surgery but shew gum. However, chewing gum, by making the scheming muscle of the gum ( the masseter muscle) bigger (hypertrophy) will make the posterior lower face to become wider, thus making the lower face fullness worst.

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