24 Year old with wide (Asian) face gets buccal fat removal and chin/neck lipo (California)

I write this review in excitement but swollen neck as I await my results! I am 24 years old, asian, huge cheeks, and have what I would like to call a poor fat distribution. I am definitely slightly overweight as I am 145 pounds and only 5’1, but my face has always held onto fat more than the rest of my body. When I was in college and most of my life I was very skinny, but always with wide face and huge cheeks which made me self conscious in photos, and I felt like it added 10 pounds to my face. On top of that, in recent years I have gained some weight and although I have lost some weight and healthier now, my face has remained the same and I have a double chin and fat on the front side of my neck. My face I felt didn’t match my body, so I began looking into procedures like Kybella, which I actually had done in January and March. My results were actually quite impressive, but I knew that if I really wanted to change my face shape, I needed to get the buccal fat removal and lipo like my doctor recommended. The Kybella gave me a head start, but to be honest the amount of fat I wanted melted away I would have needed at least double (and I had already received 7 vials!) so I knew the most economic and quickest option would be to have this surgery. I got the surgery done in California, and the doctor is a surgeon practicing for 20 years trainee in South Korea. We got along very well and she is Korean like me so naturally after many consultations at different offices, I as drawn to going with her for Kybella and then eventually surgery. She credited my Kybella ($3k) treatments toward my surgery so in total for surgery after the credit I ended up paying about $4k for buccal fat removal and neck/chin liposuction. I got the surgery done 5 days ago (writing this on a Monday and I got it on a Thursday) and I am still swollen so of course no results yet. But I will document my results and journey of healing on here and please reach out to me if you have questions!

Coming out of surgery I was pretty delusional from all the sedation drugs I was on, so only managed to take one pic and then went home and literally passed out from 4pm to 11am the next day! Best sleep ever haha. When I got up the next morning I showered, removed my bandages and compression garment and cleaned myself. Warning: you will leak fluid so sleep on a towel and elevated pillows! I’ve posted some photos I took with my compression band off of what I looked like the next day (took these at night). Surprisingly no real bruising, just cuts from the small incisions under my chin. And of course swollen. I used Arnica Gel and applied to the lipo and swollen areas like peolle on here suggest. I wasn’t in too much pain and didn’t take any pain meds which was great. Day 1 post surgery I did go back to my doctor to check everything and she made sure everything looked good, it was fast and I went back to rest.

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