A short transcript from a YouTube video discussing facial aging focused on the cheeks. Speakers explain that cheek volume loss (atrophy of underlying soft tissue and shrinking of facial fat compartments) leads to aged appearance; Robert Whitfield MD recommends facelifts often combined with adding fat to the upper cheek to restore youthful volume.
When people talk about the fountain of youth, they're really talking about the face and how it looks, specifically the cheeks.
Cheeks don't so much fall as the soft tissue underneath slowly atrophies and dies. We all have different fat compartments in our face. That's just part of life. Certain ones never go away, no matter how old we get. Other ones slowly shrink up with age.
Cheeks are never beyond hope. Cheeks, over time, descend and deflate. I have a solution, and usually that's a facelift. And it usually also includes adding volume, which is fat, into the upper portion of the cheek in order to volumize it and fill it.
It actually helps raise the cheeks, and it's FDA approved to increase cheek volume. And it lasts for up to two years, so it can really lift the cheek and last longer. For patients, it gives more natural look.
