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Get Cheeky for the New Year!

Throughout history, highly placed, prominent cheekbones have been considered a standard of beauty. Along with your nose and jaw line, cheekbones can create a perfect outline of your profile. Choosing to enhance your face with cheek implants can dramatically improve the balance of your features and your personal sense of attractiveness.

Not only are cheeks central to the American concept of beauty, they are also found to be vital to a young-looking face. Whether you’re looking for well-formed cheekbones like the ones you had when you were younger, or that you’ve never had, cheek implants or cheek fillers could give you a dramatic change.

According to American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) statistics, nearly 9,000 cheek implants were performed in 2008. Cheek implants are a safe, permanent option for providing high cheek bones, mostly performed on patients ages 38-50. Cheek implants can improve facial contours and restore sagging tissues, instead of having to resort to face lift surgery.

Fillers such as Radiesse are also an excellent means to restoring youth to the face. As we get older, the fat pads that once kept our cheeks plump lose their firmness, causing the cheeks to look flat. Cheek fillers help bring back fullness and definition to the depressed areas of the cheek. Fillers can be administered alone or be combined with a face lift, rhinoplasty, eyelid lift or other facial plastic surgery procedures.

If you have lost volume in your cheeks from aging or if you desire a fuller, more youthful appearance, speak to a board-certified plastic surgeon about cheek implants or fillers. Depending on your needs, your plastic surgeon will recommend a procedure that's right for you. Some patients have temporary soft tissue filler for fuller cheeks, but still need a permanent solution such as implants. Your plastic surgery can help you determine which procedure or method will give you the look you’re looking for.