Facial architecture defines a person’s overall beauty and charm, thus facial features have to be as refined and contoured. For this, buccal fat pad reduction have become quite known and performed among celebrities and common people.
The role of buccal fat pads
The buccal fat pad, also known bichat’s fat pad, is an encapsulated fat mass in the cheek. It is a deep fat pad located under the cheekbones.
For some people, the buccal fat pad is small; thus giving a beautifully sunken effect to the cheeks. For others, however, hypertrophy of the buccal pad can give the person a puffy effect. For this reason, many people seek the reduction removal of buccal fat pads.
Bichat’s fat pads play an important role at the beginning and ending of our lives. Indeed, babies are able to exert enough pressure on their cheeks to absorb milk from their mother’s breasts. Buccal fat pads also maintain the shape of the cheeks during the aging process to prevent cheeks from falling or sinking in.