I had bad buccal fat removal and got an infection, please help! (photos)

A buccal fat removal procedure can provide slimming in the lower face, in the lower anterior cheek region specifically. It can also help create more definition in the lower face depending on the overall bone and underlying tissue structure of the face. Based on your photos, it is possible th...

In my practice, asian patients or patients with asian facial features that would like to slim their lower face benefit from two procedures: buccal fat pad removal and Botox to masseter muscles. These procedures allows to achieve a V shape face, standard of female beauty in asian patients, if...

In my practice, when patients undergo buccal fat pad removal and would like to reinitiate oral sex, I recommend then to wait until the surgical wounds are completely healed.Oral mucosa heals really fast after a buccal fat pad removal, specially if the wounds are closed with sutures ( some...

Patients with questions and concerns about their scar healing process shortly after their surgery (e.g. 11 days post-op) should contact their surgeon and ask for advice.Self managing surgical scars (applying scar cream, massage, etc) could impair the healing process and make the wound open up...

Any plastic surgery procedure including buccal fat pad removal is associated swelling (downtime). Therefore results are not seeing right away.In two weeks results from a buccal fat pad removal are very UNLIKELY to be seeing. Swelling after surgery usually takes several weeks to moths to resolve...

The fullness of the cheeks depends of multiple factors like facial structure (facial bones, soft tissues) genetics, diet, environmental factors, etc.  The amount of fat in the cheeks has a correlation with the body content of fat (% of total body fat).  Therefore, unless the body fat content i...