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Cheek–Midface Lift

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With age, the cheek migrates inferiorly and nasally. This contributes to inferior orbital rim hollowing, a circle effect of the lower eyelids and cheek, a fl attening of the cheek, cheek bags (festoons), and nasolabial fold. In the past, these problems have been treated with facelifts, excision of cheek bags, and cheek implants.

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Acknowledgments

Illustrations were adapted from drawings by Lisa Birmingham, Adrienne Boutwell, and Linda Warren, University of Illinois at Chicago.

This chapter is a modification, with permission, of Chaps. 17 and 18 from Cosmetic Oculoplastic Surgery, 4th Edition, Editor Steve Fagien, Saunders, Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 187–216, 2008 [7, 8].

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  1. University of Illinois College of Medicine, 111 N. Wabash Suite 1722, Chicago, IL, 60602, USA

    Allen M. Putterman

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  1. Saint Louis University School of Med, Dept. Ophthalmology; Div. Plastic Surg, Clinical Associate Professor, Assaf Harofeh Med Center; Zerifin, Israel, St. Louis, 63105, Missouri, USA

    Morris E. Hartstein

  2. Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania; and, Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Plymouth Meeting, 19462, USA

    Allan E. Wulc

  3. University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio, Assistant Clinical Professor, San Antonio, 78258, Texas, USA

    David EE Holck

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Putterman, A.M. (2012). Cheek–Midface Lift. In: Hartstein, M., Wulc, A., Holck, D. (eds) Midfacial Rejuvenation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1007-2_5

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