Is Buccal Fat Removal a Good Idea?
“It’s easy, and it’s also easy to see why it’s desirable: When buccal fat is removed, its absence hollows out the area just below the cheekbone, so that the bone itself appears more pronounced. But it may not be as dramatic as TikTok leads you to believe. “In certain faces it can give a little more delineation, but the changes are usually small,” says New York plastic surgeon Melissa Doft, MD. “You are not going to see the crazy changes that some people talk about on Instagram. It’s very subtle.”