Am I a Good Candidate for Buccal Fat Removal?
If your face is round with little definition, you may prove a good candidate for buccal fat removal.
Self-esteem increases because you know those chipmunk cheeks are gone for good. Buccal fat removal can make you look and feel more glamorous. Did you ever suck in your cheeks and think, "This is the way I'd like to look"? Buccal fat removal can help you attain that goal. Because the surgery is performed within the mouth, there are no scars on the cheeks, and only one treatment is necessary.
However, if your face is thin and narrow, you are not a good candidate. That's because removing the buccal fat pad from the cheeks of a thin-faced person can give them a skeletal appearance. The same holds true for older people. Buccal fat pad volume tends to thin with age. As a result, older people undergoing the procedure may end up looking gaunt. Good candidates are healthy nonsmokers at a stable weight. Obese people are not candidates for buccal fat removal.
It is also crucial that your expectations of the results are realistic. For example, some patients may think their cheeks are too chubby, but that's not the general consensus. In such cases, buccal fat removal would make the person's face look far too thin. No one wants to appear aged and gaunt. Aesthetic issues that buccal fat removal can improve or accomplish include:
- Providing high cheekbones – High cheekbones have always been the sign of classic beauty. Although round-faced people are often attractive, high cheekbones with sunken cheeks are still the standard.
- Young people can achieve a somewhat older appearance. This can help professionally if chubby cheeks make employers and colleagues tend to see you as a kid due to the way you look.
- Softening the appearance of smile lines running from the ether side of the nose to the mouth’s corners.
- For those who have lost significant weight but are concerned that their face is still too full.
- For slender people, reducing the illusion of being overweight.
- Wanting to change their status from cute to “pretty” or “handsome.”
- A more enhanced jawline
