'I felt as if, when I walked into a room, people just saw me for the first time, rather than my cheeks'
. By the time I decided to have my buccal fat pads removed almost four years ago, I had tried basically everything to be happier with my appearance: pumped up my cheekbones and augmented my jawline with filler; sat through one skin-tightening procedure after another, like Ultherapy and radio-frequency microneedling; and hadThe thing about cheeks is that everyone has them. Buccal fat pads are basically just self-contained balls of fat that sit under the buccinator muscle deep inside your cheek.
The procedure itself happened exactly as he described. I can still feel the sensation of Dr. Miller’s tools digging inside my cheek until the pads gently popped out like a bubble. I remember looking down at his table and seeing two orange globs that resembled raw chicken thighs staring back at me — my large buccal fat pads saying their final good-bye. I remember thinking,My cheeks were swollen for about a week, like a chipmunk hoarding nuts for winter, with hardly any pain .
I have never regretted getting my buccal fat pads removed for a single moment, but seeing the procedure blow up on social media has made me glad I waited so long to do it. I spent years trying other treatments and researching my options.
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