Filler in Cheeks
Before & After Gallery

Procedure: Subtle Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Description: This grad student complained about looking tired regardless of getting plenty of sleep. This tired look is due to the shrinkage and descent of her midface fat pads. This was very conservatively corrected with only one syringes total of cheek filler. She looks more alert and vibrant in her after photo. Dr. Bonakdar has given her the option of augmenting her results with a second syringe of filler in the future.

Procedure: Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Description: Beautiful cheeks follow certain mathematical proportions and possess an upper fullness that projects out and reflects the light as well as a lower hollowness that demonstrates a shadow. Some individuals prefer a more natural look, while others opt for more dramatic results. Dr. Bonakdar enhances her patient’s beauty with her expert injections. Her results are magical but not accidental - a culmination of years of perfecting her filler injection technique.

Procedure: Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Description: This patient’s facial aging can be seen in multiple parts of the face including the upper, middle and lower face. Her midface injection of her cheeks has improved her lid-cheek junction resulting in her looking younger and well rested. Dr. Bonakdar assesses each of her patients and customizes their treatment to achieve the most favorable results while avoiding unnatural looks.

Procedure: Dramatic Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 79 Year Old Female

Description: Asian faces age differently than Caucasian faces. Asian faces loose bony mass and soft tissue in the center of the face namely loosing outward projection in the nose and mid cheek area. Caucasian faces loose soft tissue and bone in the periphery of the face at the jaws and lateral cheeks causing. This 79-year-old Asian female demonstrates these differences. She has cheek volume loss but her jaw line and jaw angle have not aged much. Dr. Bonakdar augmented her cheeks and recreated the cheek projection that she had lost making her look much younger than her age. Notice that natural upward projection of the smile line and lip corner that have occurred even though neither of these 2 areas were corrected.

Procedure: Moderate Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 67 Year Old Female

Description: Thin individuals and athletes with low body fat composition have skinny faces which show aging more dramatically than fuller faces. This patient looks better immediately after her mid face cheeks augmention. She was advised to also correct her lower face aging with fillersbut opted instead to undergo plastic surgery. Unfortunately, in such cases, the results are not favorable and leave the patient looking surgurized and guant instead of rejuvenated and young. Dr. Bonakdar believes that the solution to facial volume loss and sinking is reflation and redraping of the face with fillers and not surgical tightening.

Procedure: Subtle Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 54 Year Old Female

Description: This before and after is a great example of what happens to the smile lines when cheek volume loss is corrected with fillers. Cheek augmentation done correctly lifts the midface as well as the lower face up, diminishing the lower face lines and sagging. Correction of lower face lines done after mid face correction requires less filler and will result in more natural results. Over corrected lower face area leads to a chipmunk appearance which Dr. Bonakdar avoids by addressing the mid face first and the lower face second.

Procedure: Subtle Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 38 Year Old Female

Description: Midface aging starts in our thirties. The bone loss and soft tissue loss around the eyes result in gradual changes that at first go unnoticed, but become apparent with time. This beautiful patient saw Dr. Bonakdar to correct some of the early aging changes that she had started noticing. Here corrections included lower lid as well as minimal cheek augmentation. She does not look overdone, rather she looks very natural. Dr. Bonakdar specializes in turning back the clock and creating natural looking results.

Procedure: Moderate Male Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 42 Year Old Male

Description: Facial aging is does not discriminate between the sexes. Men can also enhance their appearance with fillers. However, as Dr. Bonakdar will tell you, the placement and amount of the filler used determines if a face becomes more feminized or masculinized. Dr. Bonakdar is an expert in male facial rejuvenation with Botox, fillers and Kybella.

Procedure: Subtle Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 52 Year Old Female

Description: Some people age better than others. But even in genetically gifted individuals correcting telltale signs of aging makes a huge difference in their overall beauty scale. This patient shows beginnings of midface and lower face aging. As a result in her before photo she looks tired. Whereas after her cheeks were injected and raised, she looks more awake and happy. Her next step is to correct the tiny bit of jowls in the lower face that actually improved with the midface correction.

Procedure: Moderate Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 27 Year Old Female

Description: Cheek augmentation with Voluma enhances this patient's overall beauty. Although she is young, her mid face area has become flattened already. She looks more alert and vibrant in her after photo.

Procedure: Moderate Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 61 Year Old Female

Description: Dr. Bonakdar’s AmpliPhi Filler Treatment magical results are demonstrated with this close up photo of the temple, brow, lower lid and cheek of this patient. Most patients worry about unnatural results when considering filler treatments. Rest assured that in the expert hands of Dr. Bonakdar, your filler results will look so natural, as if your face just never aged.

Procedure: Subtle Cheek Augmentation with Moderate Lower Lid Correction

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 61 Year Old Female

Description: This lovely patient, new to cosmetic dermatology, came to see Dr. Bonakdar for a comprehensive consultation for correction of her facial aging which had started bothering her recently. She has moderate to severe soft tissue and bone loss for which Dr. Bonakdar suggested the AmpliPhi Filler Treatment. Her AmpliPhi results of the midface are shown in these photos. It may look like she still has lower lid hollows. However, the shadow seen is from hyperpigmentation and not from volume deficit. She has sun damage from living in Orange County most of her life. This is easily correctable with skin resurfacing treatments such as IPL or Fraxel. She is smitten with her results and plans to come in for yearly follow up maintenance treatments.

Procedure: Subtle Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 48 Year Old Female

Description: Cheek augmentation done properly should enhance the beauty of the individual not detract from it. Some individuals prefer a more natural look like the patient shown, while others opt for more dramatic results. Regardless of the size of the cheeks, beautiful cheeks follow certain proportions, displaying both light and shadow. Dr. Bonakdar expertly accesses the facial anatomy of her patient. She addresses her patient’s preferred look. She precisely measures the facial proportions to plan her injections. Her results are magicalbut not accidental- a culmination of years of perfecting her filler injection technique.

Procedure: Subtle Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 54 Year Old Female

Description: Just like all other bones in our body, facial bones also atrophy and get smaller with age. Enhancing the cheek bones to their more youthful size and position, when done correctly, enhances facial beauty. This 54 year old female is beautiful even with her mild midface aging, but a small amount of filler in her cheek, definitely has a positive effect on her overall facial features.

Procedure: Moderate Cheek Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 61 Year Old Female

Description: Deflated high cheek bones in thin faced individuals blend into crow’s feet and make the face look emaciated Cheek augmentation in these individuals is a great way of fixing deflated cheeks and getting rid of crow’s feet. Dr. Bonakdar’s end result looks natural and makes this patient appear healthier.

Procedure: Filler in Cheeks

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 64 Year Old Female

Description: Midface volume loss is one of the telltale signs of aging. Dr. Bonakdar restores the midface volume and projection with her precision filler placement. Immediate result of midface filler treatment in looking refreshed and younger.