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Contour · Diagnosis First
Fat, muscle or bone: the cause chooses the option
Gangnam, Seoul | Board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Jonghwan Choi
Surgical and non-surgical routes compared · KHIDI-registered for international patients
Round face slimming
The short answer
A round face can be slimmed by removing fat, by relaxing muscle, or sometimes not at all, and which of these applies depends on what is making the face round. Rewind offers four options: buccal fat removal for deep cheek fat, cheek liposuction for fat under the skin, a fat dissolving (contour) injection for smaller pockets of fat without surgery, and a jaw slimming injection of botulinum toxin for a bulky chewing muscle. Width that comes from bone is changed by none of them, and the examination says so when that is the finding.
Details of each option come from Rewind's own Korean treatment pages. Session numbers and durations are the clinic's published figures; anaesthesia and operating times for the surgical options are not published, so this page does not state them.
Most round faces owe their shape to more than one cause, and a treatment chosen from a menu at home tends to address only one of them. The examination sorts the causes first, then matches each to an option, and sometimes the right answer is to treat only one of them and leave the rest.
Case photographs
Both patients below were examined and found to carry deep cheek fat, so the buccal pad was part of the plan. The second was double-chin liposuction with the buccal pad removed and the neck muscle tightened in the same session. Neither pair shows a muscle-driven or skeletal round face, since those are answered by different routes and would look different again.
BEFOREAFTER
BEFOREAFTERPhotographed by Rewind Plastic Surgery at the clinic. A face with a different cause of roundness would not respond in the same way. Surgery can be followed by bleeding, infection, prolonged swelling, altered sensation, asymmetry and scarring, and results vary between individuals.
Cause and option
Four findings account for almost every round face seen at consultation. Each has its own answer, and one of them has no answer among the options on this page.
The examination
The sequence below is how a round face is read at consultation. It takes the guesswork out of choosing, and it is the reason a plan is written only after the examination has finished.
A masseter that hardens and widens under the fingers on clenching is contributing to the width of the face, whatever the fat around it is doing.
Fat that can be gathered between the fingers in the side and front cheek belongs to liposuction or to an injection, depending on how much of it there is.
Fullness low in the cheek that cannot be pinched suggests the buccal fat pad. Of the four causes, it is the only one reached from inside the mouth.
Rewind's contour material describes an ultrasound scan that reads fat thickness, deeper fat and the salivary gland, and a facial contour analyser that records the surface before a plan is designed.
A face that is round at a stable weight behaves differently from one that has recently gained weight, and a midface that has started to thin narrows which options are sensible.
The written plan names the cause and the option chosen for it. Where two causes are present, routes may be combined, or one is treated first and reviewed before the second is added.

Surgical or not
Two of the four options are operations and two are injections. The difference matters less than it first appears, because the choice follows the cause of the roundness, and the cause is fixed before any preference comes into it.
Both remove fat in a single operation. The pad comes out through an incision of about 1 cm inside the cheek, closed with dissolving sutures, while cheek liposuction suctions the layer under the skin and is quoted per area, side and front separately.
Neither involves an incision. Rewind's material states that the contour injection is given without anaesthesia and usually shows its clearest change after two to three sessions, and that the jaw slimming injection lasts three to six months, varying with the muscle.
Because Dr. Choi performs the operations and gives the injections, the recommendation does not depend on which list a patient happened to arrive through. A pocket too small for surgery is told so, and a muscle problem is never offered liposuction.
At the clinic

Fig. 04 · The theatre used for buccal fat removal and cheek liposuction

Fig. 05 · A treatment room used for injections
Operations and injections take place in the same practice, on the fourth and fifth floors of the Richro Building in Apgujeong, Seoul. The operating room is reserved for the two surgical options; injections are given in a treatment room on the same floors, so a patient who begins with an injection and later needs surgery stays with the same surgeon and the same records.
Board-certified plastic surgeon
Every round face plan, surgical or not, is drawn up by Dr. Jonghwan Choi, whose Korean certification is in Plastic Surgery. Rewind receives patients from abroad as a KHIDI-registered institution, Reg. M-2025-01-08-09288.
Pricing
The four options are priced in different units: an operation per procedure or per area, an injection per session or per dose. Comparing them fairly means multiplying the injection figures by the number of sessions a plan is likely to need.
List prices with VAT charged on top, including any anaesthetic fee for that item. Which option applies is settled at the examination, and a combined plan is written out line by line before anything is booked.
Suitability
Aftercare
The four routes differ most in what follows them. The injections return you to ordinary life the same day with a short list of things to avoid; the operations bring swelling, specific instructions and a review appointment.
Injections can cause swelling, bruising and tenderness where the needle went in, and a relaxed chewing muscle can make firm chewing feel weaker for a while. Surgery carries the risk of bleeding, infection, prolonged swelling, altered sensation, asymmetry and scarring, and removing the buccal pad from a face that later thins can leave the midface looking hollow.
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Scientific evidence
The papers below cover the surgical half of this page: contouring of the face and jaw line by liposuction, the caution attached to removing the buccal pad, and how skin in older faces behaves once fat has been taken away.
They describe other surgeons' patients, techniques and settings. None is a study of Rewind Plastic Surgery or of any injection used here, and none predicts how an individual face will respond.