A facelift procedure is one of the most effective ways to reverse facial volume loss. Facelift procedures are performed by experienced plastic surgeons like Dr. Bret Johnson, MD, who has many years of experience helping patients achieve their desired results.
Cheek Augmentation: cheek augmentation with implants can effectively reverse many of the visible effects of facial wasting.
Diet and Hydration: - Increase Caloric Intake: Eating more calorie-dense foods can help add volume to your face. Focus on healthy fats (avocados, nuts, olive oil) and proteins. - Stay Hydrated: Drinking plenty of water can reduce the appearance of hollowness and improve skin elasticity.
A Gaunt face or sunken cheeks can be easily corrected with a number of treatments, like Profhilo – an intense concentration of hyaluronic acid – to achieve rapid rehydration, improved tone and increased elasticity of the skin, and dermal fillers to replace lost volume in the mid face.
Making specific lifestyle changes, such as protecting your skin from the sun, quitting smoking, maintaining a healthy diet, staying hydrated, and getting enough sleep, can help support long-term facial volume restoration.
With age, that fat loses volume, clumps up, and shifts downward, so features that were formerly round may sink, and skin that was smooth and tight gets loose and sags.
In your 40s, your ageing skin can become drier, making lines and wrinkles more pronounced. You continue to lose subcutaneous fat, but not equally from all areas. Fat pads around the cheeks and above the mouth are generally the first to go, followed by fat from around the sides of the mouth, chin and jawline.
You may develop hollow cheeks due to illness, such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (an inherited condition caused by collagen defects), lipoatrophy (a loss of facial fat commonly associated with HIV), advanced tuberculosis and eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia nervosa.
Injectable Fillers
The most minimally invasive way to restore volume and fullness to the face is with injectable filler products such as Radiesse or Sculptra. Voluma is a product within the Juvederm family that is specifically designed to restore volume to the cheeks.
Ozempic face is a colloquial term, not a medically recognized condition. It describes the facial changes that can accompany rapid weight loss when using medications like Ozempic or another version of the same drug (generic name semaglutide) FDA-approved for weight-loss treatment.
To rebuild structures of the face, a facial plastic surgeon may use tissues from the person's body, such as a microvascular free tissue transfer, or “free flap,” where the surgeon takes skin, bone or muscle from one part of the person's body to reconstruct new facial features.
The cause is usually environmental and lifestyle factors. The most common signs of premature aging appear in your skin, with wrinkles, age spots, dryness or loss of skin tone. Healthy lifestyle habits can help stop and prevent further premature aging.
Features are typically sunken cheeks, very prominent cheekbones not concealed by the usual fat layer, hollowness, and sunken temples. There are several techniques to address this issue including but not limited to custom implants, fat grafting, facial fillers, and face-lifting.
Never too late to benefit
Even people who already have signs of premature skin aging can benefit from making lifestyle changes. By protecting your skin from the sun, you give it a chance to repair some of the damage. Smokers who stop often notice that their skin looks healthier.
If you're looking for more dramatic results, a dermatologist can recommend medical treatments for wrinkles. These include prescription creams and serums; injections of medicine such as Botox, Jeuveau, Xeomin, Daxxify, Sculptra, Radiesse; chemical peels; microneedling; and laser treatments.
The primary cause of a fat face is excess fat in the buccal fat pads. Why is my face fat but not my body? You may have a genetic pre-disposition to chubby cheeks even though you have a slim body. Also, some people are born with thicker buccal fat pads in their cheeks while the rest of their bodies are slim.
Dermal fillers are a popular non-surgical solution for treating the appearance of sunken or hollow cheeks. These fillers, designed to restore volume, are injected into the hollowed areas of your cheekbones, lifting them and returning a more youthful plumpness to your face.
The total cost of facial fat grafting, including both the liposuction and fat transfer components of the procedure, typically falls in the $3,000 to $7,500 range at our practice.
Although it is difficult to gain weight specifically on the face, safely gaining fat or muscle can make a person's face appear fuller. Certain facial exercises and remedies may also help.