FACE IT: Your weight has a lot to do with how young you look

April 20, 2009
DENVER, CO—If you’re not dieting and yet the size tag inside the seam of your new dress is shrinking, count the bills in your wallet. Chances are you are now the proud owner of a designer dress, a pricy designer dress at that.

The top-most fashion designers in the world have long understood the principle of Vanity Sizing—the more expensive the item of clothing, the smaller the size on the tag. Whether it inspired wealthy women to spend recklessly at Bergdorf’s for a Size 4, knowing they are truly a Size 8, no one’s talking

Facial Plastic Surgeon Jeffrey R. Raval, MD, FACS and owner and medical director of Rocky Mountain Laser Aesthetics has found a reason for you not to lose those 10 extra pounds you’d have to shake before you could squeeze into a Size 2. “Thin women look older as they age,” says Dr. Raval, explaining that thin women have proportionally less facial fat than thicker women do. The more drawn a woman’s face is, the more it evidences wrinkles and shows sagging in the jowl area.”

For years, Dr. Raval has maintained that a person’s face is not so different than a raisin and grape. The fresh young grape slowly wrinkles into the raisin; loss of volume leaves the patient looking decades older.

If your aversion to wider hips is greater than your distaste for living behind an increasingly older-looking face, Dr. Raval has solutions for that. He’s performed hundreds and hundreds of fat transfers—capturing and withdrawing the fat from one area of the body (like the abdomen), spinning it in a medical shaker much like a paint can shaker at a hardware store. The purpose is to cast off extra water, reducing the fluid to a proportion that is less water, more fat. Then he re-injects the fat into the cheek area.

Another less invasive treatment is the use of injectable fillers like long-lasting Juvederm, Restylane and Radiesse delivering immediate results. These fillers are injected into the skin under the cheekbones that appear hollowed out, into the jaw line where the filler injections plump up the skin smoothing out the jaw-line and taking off years. Sometimes Dr. Raval performs injections under the lower eyelids to fill in where the patient’s eyes look sunken and dark.

Contact Rocky Mountain Laser Aesthetic today for an appointment that will have you feeling good about the last 10 you’ve not been able to shake.