Blog Fifteen

There is so much and so much time to be into doing this job. Marilena Marignani is a plastic surgeon with dark hair and large eyes and large cheekbones. As practicing a nose job on a cadaver she is talking with another doctor, she poked at an edge of a yolk colored blob. Apparently the blob is known among plastic surgeons as the malar fat pad. "malar" means relating to the cheek. The malar fat pad is the cushion of youthful padding that sits high on your cheekbone (zigoma-medical terms) and also the things that grandmothers pinch!
More facts and interesting things:
over the years, gravity coazes the fat from its roost, and it commences a downward slide, piling up at the first anatomical roadblock it reaches: the nasolabial folds ( the anatomical parenthese that run from the edges of a middle-aged nose down to the corners of the mouth.) the result is that the cheeks start to look bony and sunken, and bulgy parenthese of fat reinforce the nasolabial lines. During facelifts, surgeonsput the malar fat pad back up where it started out. That is more of a scientific way of looking at it, but in other words, the cheeks get saggy when you grow old and that bony, sunken look is when you get a face-lift to bring the malar (fatty stuff) back to where it was to look young again!