Recently, the little male cat raised by Zhimei has blushed, and his face has become fat and cute.
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For the little male cat, the cheeks are the embodiment of its gradual rounding and cuteness.
However, when the cheeks appear on the faces of our ordinary people, they are often not cute, but the appearance of the face jumps off a cliff!
Good face, why is it suddenly square, and can it be saved?
Simply put, cheeks are "V" faces becoming round faces.
The main things that make the "cheeks" round are fat, parotid glands, masseter muscles, and the bones under them [1].
Each performance is slightly different.
The most common one is that when you are a child, your face is very sharp, and when you grow long, your face becomes square.
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This cheekburn is most likely due to the obvious development of the mandible.
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Our adolescence is also the peak of the growth of the mandible, and this bone will affect the size of the face.
If some people have a mandible that is too well developed and grows more pronounced than the average person, their face tends to become wider and squarer.
However, after adulthood, the facial bones basically ended developing, and even if they developed again, the amount of growth was extremely limited, so the blushing after adulthood was often related to the other 3 reasons.
1. Fat type cheeks
If you've been eating hot pot, drinking milk tea lately, and lying on the couch when you get home, you're likely to fall into this category.
Because this will lead to a spike in calorie intake, not only will the body grow flesh, but also let too much fat accumulate on the face, forming a cheek.
2. Masseter muscle type cheeks
But there are also some people, obviously very thin, but the cheeks are very large.
This is likely to be the development of the masseter muscles.
The so-called masseter muscles are the muscles we use when we chew.
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If you usually like to eat with only one side of your teeth, chew gum from time to time, and like to eat rice cakes, nuts and other tough or hard things [2];
Or there is a habit of "molarting teeth at night" and "clenching teeth".
Then your masseter muscles are likely to be in a state of frequent force for a long time and will easily become thick.
Thick masseter muscles may also affect the "foundation", "remodeling" the mandible in adolescence, and aggravate the "cheeks".
However, compared with the next one, the above two can only be regarded as pediatrics.
3. Relaxing aging cheeks
With aging, the tissues on our face change, from the deepest bones to the lightest skin.
Examples include smaller bone absorption, fat atrophy or hypertrophy and sagging (changes in different parts are not consistent), sagging skin and the formation of deep wrinkles.
In addition, there are some particularly important structures on the face - ligaments.
With aging, the soft tissues on the face gradually begin to "snakeskin dislocation" due to the limitation of ligaments, and fat sagging, atrophy, deformation and hypertrophy appear, and there are more and more square cheeks.
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Seeing this, many little sisters may feel that cheeks seem to be difficult to avoid!
Don't be discouraged, in fact, knowing these reasons early, coupled with paying attention to the following 3 points as soon as possible, has already won on the starting line:
First of all, if you are younger and still in adolescence, you can pay attention
Do not chew hard objects, chewing gum, etc. for a long time;
Chew together on both sides when eating;
Correct teeth molars in a timely manner.
This can control the development of the mandible to a certain extent, so as to avoid skeletal gills in adulthood.
Adult fairy can also be remedied!
Controlling yourself and stopping chewing food like a little hamster can also reduce the incidence of stout masseter muscles (please ignore this for little fairies who don't care about face shape).
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In particular, we should pay attention to correcting the "night molars" in time, and you can try to go to the dentistry to correct the teeth and wear a tooth pad [4].
For the vast majority of people, weight loss may be the most obvious V-face effect, because most people lose weight, and the "cheeks" are naturally put away [3].
The aging type of cheeks, although inevitable, but we can start early sun protection, weight control, 3 times a week to ensure 30 minutes of exercise, to delay aging, maintain youth.
If you really want to improve facial sagging, you can also go to the medical aesthetic department of the top three hospitals and try non-surgical medical aesthetic methods (specific items can consult a doctor) to lift and tighten the skin.
However, aging is really a normal thing, and everyone will have such a day.
And in fact, which of V face and square face is good-looking, it is often just the difference in aesthetics.
In foreign countries, it is also popular to specialize in medical beauty into a square face.
So we really don't have to be too entangled, beauty is varied, not the same, even if it is different from Internet celebrities and celebrities, we still have our own unique beauty.
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Reviewer
Han Xuefeng | Chief Physician of Plastic Surgery Department, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
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