Best Way to Restore Volume to Cheeks? (photo)

Your upper cheeks are weak on the photo and there are many ways to improve this. Cheek implants are permanent and give better symmetry than fat injections or fillers without the lumps and bumps that can occur with those. Uncommonly a cheek implant can get infected, but done by an experienced surgeon should give consistent complication free results. The nao labial creases can be filled with Radiesse.

 

The choice for cheek augmentation is either implants or fat injections. There are advocates for both and neither one is right or wrong. They each have their own benefits and downsides which primarily come down to permanency (implants) vs resorption/lumpiness (fat) and ease of placement (fat) vs risk of infection and asymmetry. (implants) There are similar chocis for the nasolabial folds but by far most choice some type of filler, whether it is a synthetic material or fat. Between the cheeks and the nasolabial folds, a combination of implants and fillers can work together to create an improved appearance.