Mail Online recommends fillers to address facial sagging after weight loss
The linked Mail Online’s beauty column addresses the issue of ageing, responding to a reader who is experiencing problems with hollow cheeks after losing weight. The article suggests injectable hyaluronic acid fillers, which give a near immediate and natural looking result. Dr Tracy Mountford who contributed to the piece, said that she sometimes recommends Sculptra in such cases, which stimulates natural collagen production and has results that last a bit longer.

The leading cosmetic doctor answers your questions on dealing with ageing . . .

Q I’m 64 and have lost 5 st recently. I’m desperate to fill out my cheeks, but I suffer from trigeminal neuralgia, which causes facial pain, and have to take drugs to manage it. Can you help me?

A Significant weight loss is a surefire way of looking older than your years.

When we’re younger, weight loss does not particularly impact our face unless it is rapid or severe. As we age, though, it visibly affects the pads of fat that sit deep under the skin on the face.

This week, a reader asks how she can fill out her cheeks following significant weight loss

These pads act like the support scaffolding of the face and once they deplete, the overlying skin droops and sags, creating a sad, tired look. The cheeks appear sunken and hollow and you are more predisposed to jowls.

Sadly, even if you gain weight this lost fat will not be replaced.

The good news is that restoring lost volume with injectable hyaluronic acid fillers has a pretty immediate - but natural-looking - effect.

It should take only a couple of treatments and ought to be topped up around every nine to 12 months.

Dr Tracy Mountford says restoring lost volume with injectable hyaluronic acid fillers has a pretty immediate - but natural-looking - effect

Your condition and medication would be taken into account by a cosmetic doctor, but it does not preclude you from treatment.

Sometimes I recommend Sculptra, an injectable volumising treatment, which stimulates natural collagen production to restore lost volume, and fill in wrinkles and depressions.