Procedures / Face

Even the face is affected after massive weight loss. Plastic surgeons used to think that the human face ages because of the prolonged effects of gravity and loss of skin elasticity. However, plastic surgeons now believe that the face ages because of loss of fat. Plastic surgeons believe that a more youthful face is round and fuller, similar to a baby’s face. Nowhere is this more true than in the faces of patients after massive weight loss. Just as in other areas of the body like the breasts and buttocks, with weight loss, the face losses fat. The resulting appearance may be sunken orbits, atrophy of the cheeks, deepening nasolabial folds, sagging jowls, and neck with significant excess skin. After massive weight loss, the result is a dramatically “older” looking face.