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What Happens To Your Cheeks With Ageing?
With the natural ageing process, your cheeks lose volume, structure, and projection, and their overall contour starts to sag over time.
In part, this is because your skull, the bony platform of your face, starts to shrink. Bone resorption in your midface occurs primarily in your inner cheeks, rather than your outer cheeks.
Deep cheek fat also disappears as you mature, with loss of 5-6mls on average between your 4th and 5th decades of life. Interestingly, over 50 percent of our total head and neck fat resides deep within your inner cheeks.
Loss of both bone and deep cheek fat disrupts the structural foundations of your midface and reduces support for the tissue layers above. Subsequently, superficial cheek fat starts to descend over the deep layers, causing your cheeks to slide forwards and downwards on your face.
This sag is compounded by the loss of collagen and elastin from your skin with ageing. Mature skin is lax skin that lacks firmness and elasticity and has less capacity as an outer envelope to hold everything in place.
When cheeks start to sag, your lower face is impacted. Your jawline and the skin around your mouth become less taut, from lack of tension from above, leading to lower face sag. The hollows under your eyes, known as your tear troughs, may also become elongated without support from your cheeks below. By affecting other areas of your face, loss of cheek volume, structure, and projection can add years to your appearance.
Even so, always try to remember that facial ageing is a completely normal process.
How Can Melbourne’s Dr. Jodie Clinic Help With Your Sagging Cheek Concerns?
At the Dr. Jodie clinic, we offer consultations about how to improve your sagging cheeks if they bother you.
Solutions focus on restoring your cheek contours, lift a sagging face, and improving skin laxity - essentially addressing all factors that contributes to your cheek concerns.
A combination approach is typically recommended, as the results tend to be cumulative. Medical treatments, skin care, skin peels, LED therapy, mono threads, and devices all play a role. Laser Genesis is great for skin smoothing and firming, while the Scarlet S Radio Frequency is our most potent way to tighten up that outer skin envelope at the Dr. Jodie clinic.
Please note that any treatment that includes the use of schedule 4 medications cannot legally be advertised online, as directed by our governing body the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), so it is not a feature of our discussion here.
Your Dr. Jodie clinician will help guide you through your choices during you consultation.
What Is Involved In Your Dr. Jodie Consultation On Sagging Cheeks?
Your Dr. Jodie clinician will meticulously analyse your face to identify the main factors contributing to your sagging cheeks. She will review your medical history to see if you are a suitable candidate for treatment, ensuring there are no pre-existing contraindications. She will then formulate a treatment plan based on her thorough facial assessment that is customised to your specific needs.
Each recommended solution within your plan will be carefully explained, including its associated risk and benefit profile, the steps involved, and your financial obligations. It is not uncommon for your treatment plan to be staged over time, as this will lead to your best result and there is advantage to slow steady changes.
Your active participation in the planning process is highly encouraged and there will be ample time to have all your questions answered. She will also document your face before and after treatment with standardised clinical photography to track your progress.
Refreshed Focus For Sagging Cheeks At The Dr. Jodie Clinic In Melbourne
When addressing sagging cheeks, your Dr. Jodie clinician will aim to help you look fresh, not fake. To create a subtle outcome, she will take the time to carefully assess your face and identify your unique requirements. With a discerning aesthetic eye and light-handed approach, she will endeavour to deliver what is needed for a refreshed appearance. Your Dr. Jodie clinician believes that cosmetic enhancements should always leave you looking just like you.
With a combination approach, the aim is to create angles and soft curves, so your face looks more defined, not puffy. In the right hands, improving the contour and definition of your cheeks is more than achievable. You can rest easy knowing your Dr. Jodie clinician understands concepts of facial balance and proportions. She understands the need for a ‘total face’ approach, taking into consideration your skin quality, as well as your facial contours for your best outcome.
Your Dr. Jodie clinician also understands the important differences between a feminine and masculine cheek. The degree of cheek volume, the contour of the cheek, the height and width of the cheek, and the position of the cheek highlight vary significantly between the two. Our approach is always personalised, tailoring your treatment to suit your individual features and preferences, whether you lean more feminine, masculine, or somewhere in between.
Tailored Approach To Sagging Cheeks At Melbourne’s Dr. Jodie Clinic
At the Dr. Jodie clinic, you will never have to settle for a ‘cookie cutter’ approach to cosmetic care. We understand that every face is different and deserves a personalised treatment plan. To restore an ideal contour to your unique cheeks, your Dr. Jodie clinician will take a ‘whole face’ approach. This means your entire face is analysed to determine your management, not just one area of your face in isolation. Your treatment plan is tailored with a light touch, designed to align with your goals while respecting your natural facial balance. Using your individualised blueprint, she will always strive to create a subtle outcome that’s suits your face.
Trust The Dr. Jodie Clinic For Your Sagging Cheek Concerns In Melbourne
With over 15 years of experience as a cosmetic doctor, Dr. Jodie has the knowledge and experience to create subtle enhancements to your cheeks and midface using a combination approach. As a national clinical trainer for one of the major pharmaceutical companies globally, Dr. Jodie has trained some of Melbourne’s leading doctors, specialists and nurses, so you get peace of mind that you will always receive the highest quality of care. She has personally mentored and trained all her Dr. Jodie clinicians to operate in the same manner. At the Dr. Jodie clinic, you will experience longer appointment times and the latest advances in cosmetic medicine to prioritise both your outcome and your health.
