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Cheek & Midface Aesthetics: Concerns and Options
Written for someone deciding about their own face rather than studying the subject. If you read only one, read the second, because whether your cheek has lost volume or lost support decides everything that follows and it is the step most often skipped.
All guides
12 guides
- Cheek and Midface Anatomy: Fat Pads, Ligaments and BoneAnatomy
- Flat, Hollow or Heavy: Three Cheek Complaints With Different CausesCandidacy
- Fat Pads, Bone or Ligament Support: Naming What ChangedAssessment
- Buccal Fat in a Midface Plan: Who Should Not Have It RemovedCandidacy
- Cheek Filler and Collagen Stimulators: Where the Volume Actually GoesOptions
- Threads and Energy Devices in the Cheek: What They Can and Cannot LiftOptions
- Malar Implants or Fat Grafting: Choosing the MaterialComparing
- Midface Lift or Filler: When Surgery Is the Honest AnswerComparing
- Zygoma Reduction and the Wide Midface: A Different Problem EntirelyCandidacy
- Cheek Scars and Texture: What Helps and What Only Looks Like It ShouldOptions
- Cheek Asymmetry and the Smile: Static Balance Versus Dynamic BalanceAssessment
- Choosing a Practitioner for Cheek and Midface WorkChoosing a clinician
Start with the direction, not the product
An assessment establishes whether the complaint is a shortage of tissue, a loss of support or a bone shape, what each option would change, and what each would leave alone. It is reasonable to leave having decided against treatment.