I am 3 months post op today. I still have lumps on the inside of my mouth. No pain. No bleeding. One lump is bigger than the other. Should I be worried? Is this scar tissue? Should I wait a month before getting steroid injections?
Answers (3)
From board-certified doctors and trusted medical professionals
MOST RECENT
November 24, 2017
Answer: Lumps inside the mouth after buccal fat reduction
The amount of buccal fat to be removed during surgery varies according different factors. Those factors include the amount of buccal fat encountered and most importantly the cheek look that ultimately the patient would like to achieve.
In muy practice most of patients like to have a...
Prolonged swelling after buccal fat removal (more than a week) is possible specially if the surgery was difficult. Then the surgeon encounters a buccal fat that is very difficult to remove (e.g when the surgeon struggles to take the fat out), the more surgical dissection of the area the more and...
Patients with chubby cheeks (fulness of the anterior lower cheeks) could benefit from buccal fat removal.
Buccal fat removal is the plastic surgery procedure that removes the excess of fat of the lower cheeks to achieve non-chubby, think V shape face. The video bellow helps to understand...
