Dr. Michael K. Obeng, a board certified plastic surgeon, explains buccal fat removal and what anyone considering the procedure needs to know Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left ...

Across social media, many users, primarily younger women, are buzzing about a plastic surgery technique called buccal fat removal. While the procedure is simple and has been around for years, it's ...

On TikTok, millions are being exposed to homogenous images of what modern beauty is supposed to be. Instead of round full faces, we're now seeing chiseled jawlines. Hollowed cheekbones. Defined chins.

So what is buccal (pronounced ‘buckle’) fat? According to Dr. Konstantin Vasyukevich, a double-board certified plastic surgeon, buccal fat is a pouch of, well, fat, in your face that maintains volume ...