Will cheek implants give me the outward projection I'm looking for?

In reviewing your pictures, you have weak bone structure in the cheek area of the face.  This lack of bone is causing flatness and loss of shape to the midface.  To create a high and defined cheek in your situation, cheek implants are a wonderful option.  I recommend cheek implants for young patients that have a bone deficiency.  This is the only option that will create a permanent result and will be cost effective overtime.  I would recommend combined malar/submalar implants based on your pictures.   With all surgery, there are risks involved, but with a qualified surgeon you have a great chance of having a wonderful outcome.
You have other options to improve the area by adding volume with fat, fillers, or Sculptra.  If you are looking for the absolute safest option, these are the way to go.  The downside to these options is they have to be repeated and will cost you more money in the long run.  
I hope this helps!

From your photos which are limited, I feel you would be an excellent candidate for facial fat grafting. The procedure will allow you to achieve the results you are looking for with fat from your own body, without the need for placement of an artificial implant.  Fat grafting will provide you with volume augmentation tailored to your face, rather than using a standard set of implants.  I suggest you have an in person consultation to determine which treatment is best for you.  Good Luck!

Hello and thank you for your question.  The
best advice you can receive is from an in-person consultation.  With that
being said, based on your photographs, you may be a good candidate for cheek implants.  I always use medpor cheek implants with screw fixation.  Silicone cheek implants tend to have a high rate of malrotation over time.  The most important aspect is to find a surgeon you are
comfortable with. I recommend that you seek consultation with a qualified
board-certified plastic surgeon who can evaluate you in person.
Best wishes and good luck.
Richard G. Reish, M.D.
Harvard-trained plastic surgeon

The malar area is the most projecting part of the midface skeleton. It is what we consider the "cheekbone." Prominent malar bones are considered attractive. Hence, the malar area is frequently augmented with implants. Oftentimes, a deficiency in cheek prominence is part of a more generalized deficiency in the midface skeleton. For that reason, malar (cheek) implants are often used in combination with other implants - most frequently, with infraorbital rim implants, which build up the area directly beneath the eye.

The type of cheek augmentation effect you seek is a lateral or width augmentation. This requires either modification of a malar style cheek implant or to have hand carved or custom cheek implants made that only augment the area of the cheek you seek to change.

  A full set of facial photographs are required to make a determination about cheek implants, since the maxilla, cheeks, and the implants are all 3-dimensional structures.  In addition,  the cheek implants are manufactured in a very large array of sizes and shapes and can be custom carved when necessary to match patient's unique anatomy.  A thorough in examination is required.  For more information, diagrams of the implants themselves, and many before and after  cheek implant results, please see the link and the video below

To improve you midface projection, you could consider an in office augmentation with a thicker filler such as Juvederm Voluma or Restlyane Lyft, these products are placed deeply just above the bone and can offer significant volume augmentation. If you are looking for surgical options, cheek augmentation with a check implant (either silicone or porous polyethylene (MedPor)) can definitely help with horizontal projection, these come in a variety of shapes and can even be custom made.

 Hi, I have performed many facial shaping procedures over the past 30 years including many cheek augmentations with dermal fillers and silastic cheek implants.  From the before photo and still to a great extent in the "after" photo, your cheeks are very flat in the front, there is excess fat in front of and below the cheeks.  This all combines to create an elongated, rectangularly shaped face.  While I can't see the chin and this would be best confirmed with a profile photos of your face, I suspect that you chin may also be weak.   Following the facial beauty principles that I've developed over the past 30 years, women look the most feminine and attractive when they have heart shaped faces.  My studies indicate that heart shaped faces have cheeks that are shapely, full and round in the front (not off to the sides which tends to widen, broaden and masculinize the face).  Cheek augmentation with the proper sized, shaped and placement of a silastic cheek implant will soften and feminize the entire face.  Liposuction of the face would be combined to further shape the cheeks and face. If the chin is weak, this creates an imbalance making the nose appear larger, the mid face top heavy and the lower face look short that de-emphasizes the lips and allows early formation of a double chin.  Chin augmentation using a chin implant will add projection to the chin creating harmony and balance to the lower face. 
 I have found that placement of a silastic chin implant, through a small curved incision under the chin (also allows excess skin removal) to be very safe, quick, highly effective and far less invasive than a sliding genioplasty.  I perform chin implant surgery in 30 minutes or less, often using a local anesthetic alone. I frequently perform chin implant and cheek implant surgery together in less than 1 1/2 hours.
Hope this helps.