Suzanne Somer’s Facial Injections: Oh My
God!Recently, I performed a fat
transfer on a lady from Houston who showed me a photograph of
Suzanne Somer’s during our preoperative visit the day before the
procedure. She had already sent me an email terribly worried about the
procedure, asking whether I would make her look like some of the celebrities
out there who were overfilled.<!–
SuzanneSomer’s Pillow Face
–>When she brought the image into me, the
first thing that I could see were gigantic cheeks staring at me. Of
course, they looked too big and unbalanced. But were they too
big? I proceeded to cover up the bottom half of the face, and
surprisingly she did not look that bad. You can try that trick yourself
with this photo. I then scratched out her brows with a pen, and overall
she looked young and natural. I am not saying that her cheeks are not
overfilled but a problem that is not recognized is that her cheeks are not
balanced with the rest of the face. Her buccal area (the area below the
cheeks) are hollow making her cheeks look even bigger. Her brow area
also had not been filled so that the upper eyelid area looks hollow making
the cheeks look unbalanced. Adding fat to the other parts of the face
would certainly provide better balance and more harmony to her face.Also
recently, I had a lady come to me from New York City who wanted her lips
corrected because her top lip was marred from fat
grafting, Gore-Tex, and Bellafill(Artefill).
However, what struck me more than anything else was how big her cheeks that
made her entire face disfigured and unbalanced. I asked her what she
had done. She said she had fat
grafting performed into her cheek area to correct acne scars, which
I believe is entirely absurd as fat is too soft to make an improvement in her
type of ice-pick scars. Instead of improving her condition, her face
just looked overbloated. Being wary of additional fat
grafting given her bad experience, I opted to treat her with fillers
instead. I placed cosmetic injectable
fillers in her brow, temple, upper eyelid, buccal area, anterior
chin, and prejowl. When I saw her a few months later, I was shocked at
how much more natural and balanced she looked. Really understanding how
to create balance in a face is so very important.Samuel M. Lam, MD, FACS is a
board certified facial plastic surgeon in Dallas, Texas. To learn more about
Dr Lam’s fat
grafting procedures please call to schedule a consultation. If you would like to
ask Dr Lam a question about fat grafting please visit our fat grafting forum.
