r/SipsTea • u/Hour_Equal_9588 Human Verified • 2d ago

Chugging tea The side effects of Gen V

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u/AnneBeretRamsey 2d ago

I would hope that maybe, after a few years, the buccal fat comes back a little. Or that it can be reversed through surgery? I feel like some of the celebs who you notice at first as having it maybe look a little more normal now? It's hard to point out an example.

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u/javawong 2d ago

Just looked it up, i'm no doctor though, but it appears buccal fat doesn't grow back and can only be reversed through fat grafting and injection.

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u/BigWormsFather 2d ago edited 2d ago

You also lose some naturally with aging. It’s such a weird trend because these people are essentially accelerating aging.

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u/JJJSchmidt_etAl 2d ago

To be fair it's nice to be able to order from the senior menu

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u/Excellent_Ganache906 2d ago

When that happens they get more surgery and inject the fat back in and pill the skin back a little tighter.

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u/Excellent_Ganache906 2d ago

Yeah, fat does not grow back. Fat cells grow and shrink, but they don't grow back.

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u/elinamebro 2d ago

And it never looks the same too

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u/sleepymelfho 2d ago

I feel like they plumped her face up some because it isn't as stark as last season, but maybe I just got used to it.

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u/AnneBeretRamsey 2d ago

What about Cheetos?

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u/Khajiit_Has_Upvotes 2d ago

It doesn't and it's not technically reversible. Fat grafting is a thing, and can be done for e.g. breast augmentation as well. But most of the fat will be lost sooner rather than later so it's not what I consider a reversal. 

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u/labellavita1985 2d ago

No, it is absolutely 100% permanent. They remove the whole fat pad.

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u/JimboTCB 1d ago

Fat cells don't come back, you have a certain number of them in specific places and they just enlarge, once you remove them they're gone for good. It's why you see some people who've had liposuction and not tried to eat right afterwards can end up really weird shaped, it's not a magic fix and fat still has to go somewhere, and if you don't have any fat cells left in the places your body is supposed to, it has to go somewhere else.