Bone Loss and the Aging Face

Name: Bone Loss and the Aging Face
Uploaded: 2025-08-12T16:01:14+00:00
Duration: 27 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short, single-speaker YouTube excerpt (by Dr. Charles Mok) explaining structural facial aging: progressive loss of facial bone mass, connective tissue…

12 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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A short, single-speaker YouTube excerpt (by Dr. Charles Mok) explaining structural facial aging: progressive loss of facial bone mass, connective tissue, and localized facial fat. The speaker attributes localized facial fat loss partly to sun exposure preventing pre-adipocyte replacement of dying fat cells, leading to "skeletonized" appearance and hollowing (temples, under-eyes, jowls) and apparent soft-tissue descent due to volume deflation rather than skin elongation.

As we age, our faces change structurally. We lose bone mass and we lose some connective tissue. And we lose fat in our face, not in the rest of our body because it's covered. So it is the sun that prevents the pre adipocytes from replacing the dying fat cells. As this happened, our faces start to get a little hollow. We call skeletonized. We can see the skeleton more. We see temple hollowing, hollowing underneath the eyes hollowing on the jowls. And the face starts descending. It's not the skin got longer, it's actually the soft tissues deflated and as it drops.