Across social media, many users, primarily younger women, are buzzing about a plastic surgery technique called buccal fat removal. While the procedure is simple and has been around for years ...

Buccal fat removal might just be the new Brazilian butt lift – aka the newest cosmetic surgery procedure to take over social media. Over the past few weeks, buccal fat removal has become a hot ...

Now, yet another face-altering procedure is stirring attention online: buccal fat removal. Pronounced like “buckle,” buccal fat removal is a cosmetic surgery that extracts fat from the ...

Unlike the name implies, buccal fat removal surgery doesn’t completely remove the fat pad. Dr. Vasyukevich tells Rolling Stone the surgery only involves removing a portion of the pad, leaving the rest ...

Dr. Gary Linkov (pictured) tells Newsweek about why he stopped doing buccal fat removal surgery. Dr. Gary Linkov (pictured) tells Newsweek about why he stopped doing buccal fat removal surgery.

No one around me knew about buccal fat removal at the time, so I didn't know what I was going into. On the day, my doctor put me on local anesthetic and he cut open my cheeks from the inside.

Buccal fat removal, a procedure that involves removing cotton ball-sized fat pads inside the lower cheeks to slim the face, is all over social media right now. So far, only Chrissy Teigen has ...