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.

Then, suddenly, all the comments were about whether I’d had buccal fat removal or not. You can never win.” “I know when I’m ...

Ironically, her swollen face looks plump and round despite her partial buccal fat removal — a procedure that extracts the soft pads of tissue found inside the cheeks to create a slimmer face.