If I get pregnant after buccal fat removal, will I get the fat back in my face?

Young patients in their early 20s who have chubby cheeks and good cheek bones could benefit from buccal fat removal. Buccal fat removal corrects the chubby cheeks thus giving the face a thinner more chiseled look. The video below helps to understand who could be a candidate for buccal fat removal. 

Radio-frequency is a treatment modality that is used to "melt" fat treated to tighten the soft tissues ( including skin) of the area treated. Bucal fat pads are pockets or fat located deep in the cheeks. Therefore, unless a radio frequency device is introduced directly in the pocket where the...

Patients with round faces, secondary to chubby cheeks, that also have great prominent high cheek bones could benefit from buccal fat removal to achieve a thinner more sculpted, chiseled, v-shape facial look.  Buccal fat removal is routinely performed in my practice under local anesthesia as...

Hello, thank you for your question! Buccal fat removal is a procedure performed under local anesthesia and the level of discomfort during and after the procedure is very low. Also you should know by now how sensitive you are regarding medical treatments and your pain threshold. I think...

Treatment of ‘chubby cheeks’ cannot be achieved alone with buccal fat pad removal; a fact that I encounter time and time again when seeing patients in consultation for lower facial sculpting. My approach is to use a combined protocol that redefines aesthetic contours of the face. This inc...

When a patient has a full and round face and despite weight loss the fullness persist or if the patient is in his normal weight and the chipmunk faces has stayed all the time, a bichectomy or buccal fat pad removal is useful. It´s true that with aging the buccal fat pad tends to diminish ...