Midface and cheek
Midface surgery lifts the cheek fat back over the cheekbone, restores lost volume with fat, or removes buccal fat to slim the lower cheek.
Midface and cheek procedures
What each operation does, who it suits, the risks and how recovery goes.
Midface lift and cheek
A midface lift raises the soft tissue of the cheek, including the malar fat pad and the fat under the eye muscle (SOOF), to shorten the lower eyelid and blend the lid into the cheek. Surgeons reach the cheek through the…
Buccal fat removal
Buccal fat removal takes out part of the buccal fat pad, a deep fat body in the cheek, through a small cut inside the mouth to slim a full lower cheek and show more of the cheekbone. It suits a small group of people…
Fat grafting and volume with facelift
A face ages by losing volume as well as by sagging, so many surgeons add the patient's own fat during a facelift to refill the cheeks, temples and folds. About a third of the injected fat stays, and the cheek volume it…
Midface and cheek research by topic
What the studies show about each part of the operation.