Will Removing Fat From My Cheeks (Buccal Lipectomy) Make My Face Look Thinner?
I frequently get asked by patients in consultation or online what they can do to make their face look thinner. Besides the obvious answer of weight loss for some patients, they are specifically asking about facial fat removal either through liposuction or removal of the buccal fat pads. While liposuction can make a great difference in the neck, it is not a good method for removal of fat in the face. This has been tried a lot in the past and all that usually happens is a lot of swelling with little to no results. So that leaves the buccal lipectomy procedure as the only true fat removal procedure of the face. What is a buccal lipectomy and what can it really do? The term, buccal, means cheek and we are talking about a very distinct collection of fat that sits right under the cheek bones in the appropriately named buccal space. It is situated between the cheek skin and the cheek lining inside the mouth. It is a very large fat collection, about the size of a golf ball, and actually has fi
