What's the connection between hollow cheeks, buccal fat pads, and low BF? When you gain weight is it stored in buccal or other areas on face?

[ElBastardo]

I'm just trying to understand how it works. I know people have their buccal fat pads removed in order to get "hollow cheeks".

This is an illustration of the fat pads:

So if you remove the buccal fat pad (which appears to be the area necessary for hollow cheeks), will you have hollow cheeks even if you have high BF? I ask because I read posts where people remove the buccal fat pad they then say they have to lose BF for their cheeks.

So the other question is if you gain weight (and don't have buccal fat pads removed) does the buccal fat pad store fat and enlarge? Or is the fat stored in the other fat areas? The reason I ask is I thought I read that the buccal fat pads disappear by the time you are 25 years old or so. I'm well over that so I was just wondering if I even have a buccal fat pad to worry about. So if I don't have hollow cheeks, I have to lose fat from the other areas (not buccal), is that correct?

 

[ㅤ$ㅤ ㅤ]

I have a lot of buccal fat and even after losing 10 plus pounds plus debloated I still look like shit

 

[PrinceofDarkness]

Fat cells once removed from surgery don't ever come back, that's why those bimbos that get lipo in their midsection look "lean" even tho having fat in other areas since they removed it. Getting a buccal fat removal is useless if you don't have prominent cheekbones, since it won't give you the hollow look but more like a skeleton look. You won't gain fat in the same areas if you surgically remove those cells

 

[nukenasty]

Fat pad removal can give a hollow look if you have good support between the zygo and jaw bones/muscles. The cheek muscles can also be at play here. But it seems more apparent on women look up "male buccal fat removal" and you'll hardly see differences lol.

 

[Deleted member 1901]

The reason I ask is I thought I read that the buccal fat pads disappear by the time you are 25 years old or so.

No that’s retarded. “Buccal fat pads actually get larger as we age and not smaller.”

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I believe it’s the subcutaneous fat that is lost with age. But it never disappears completely jfl