Latest Reports Indicate Facial Fat Key to Youthful Appearance!

Fat is beautiful, find the plastic surgeons at the UT Southwestern Medical Center. However, this isn't about flab around the waist, it's about the one present in the facial cheeks.

Today many medicated personal care products are available that work to improve appearance. However, this research was carried out exploring surgical options to enhance appearance.

The research was conducted using special dyes to identify and map four cheek-fat segments lying below the skin. It was discovered when these cheek-compartments were replenished by fat, tissue fillers or artificial implants, it resulted in a more youthful appearance and a reduced hollow look that develops as a person ages.

The researchers consider their finding to be novel, as it identifies the boundaries of specific fat compartments that are crucial to facial rejuvenation involving the cheeks. As a result beautifying the look of the face as a whole.

Plastic surgery to correct facial aging is fairly common in the US. The medics used their surgical instruments to perform about 8,000 cheek implants in 2007. Furthermore, over 47,000 fat injections and 1.1 million injections involving hyaluronic acid fillers were conducted during the same year.

In order to identify the boundaries of the deep medial fat compartments and their association with adjoining muscles, the researchers injected 14 cadavers with dye and latex. They found that as the volume in the compartments decreased, the looks became hollowed and indicative of facial aging with it. However, when the correct volumes were restored, the looks improved. Moreover, when the compartments are sufficiently filled, less fat or filler is required.

The new discovery has shone facial aging in a completely new light. What's more is that procedures to correct facial aging would now be changed as well believe the researchers. For instance, surgeries might not simply be about using surgical instruments to remove fat without pre-op analysis or merely lifting the cheeks with medical instruments, but would also include lifting and filling the face to restore a natural youthful appearance.

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