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A constant dimple can be created with surgery. An incision can be placed in the planned dimple location or, most often, inside the lip where the scar is hidden. A small amount of tissue is removed and a dimple is created with a dissolving suture. When the suture is reabsorbed the dimple should remain and be there when you're not making facial expressions.
Thank you for asking about the indentation from your dimpleplasty. It should improve in another 3 weeks, A dimpleplasty sews skin to deeper tissues - held in place by a suture and healing scar. Depending on your skin and the suture, a permanent indentation can...
I'm sorry to hear you don't have a satisfactory result. As alluded by one of my colleagues, a "dimpleplasty" isn't a well defined procedure, so it's not clear what exactly you had done. Based on your photograph it looks like you had some volume reduction in both cheeks along with...
Fillers in the area will help smooth the indentations at rest if you cannot wait on your healing. You are only 2 months out from surgery and your body is continuing to heal. I would continue to wait to see if the dimpling will improve over the next couple of months before...
This is a simple office procedure with minimal downtime. A tiny incision is placed inside the mouth to create the dimple.
Thanks for the question. First off, just a quick background on dimple creation surgery: Natural dimples exist because certain people have a "hole" in the buccinator muscle of the cheek. Dimpleplasty, or dimple creation surgery, is an in-office procedure which takes about 30 minutes...
Unfortunately, I am not at all surprised by the lack of success with chemical peels and microneedling, both of which are best reserved for treating more superficial surface color and textural irregularities, rather than indented scars. Nor am I surprised by the lack of success with PRP, since...
