Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and it's time for a five-minute

Friday. Today we're going to talk all about top injectables you are not doing that you need to be

doing. That's right. It is the season of summer sexy and beauty, and we all are getting away from

our masks back to wanting to look good in the lower face

and i think one of the areas we really neglect is lower face we spend a lot of time using toxins

for the forehead and crow's feet doing under eye filler treating cheeks and temples the lower

face is very neglected and men this is not such a problem. They have very good

bone density. They have thicker, healthier skin due to all the hair follicles. They dermabraid

their skin and dermaplane it every day with shaving. And they have more robust, thick skin,

thicker skin, larger muscles, that all leads to better bone structure.

So in women, we have the opposite problem as we age, we lose bone density in the mandible.

We get thinning of the outer and inner cortex of the bone. We have loss of volume of the teeth.

The teeth themselves shrink and contract.

The gingiva and the gums get smaller.

We all get that erosion of the teeth.

And really the teeth and the mandible, the bone structure of the lower face, that is the table.

The skin, the table cloth.

The skin can only hang as nicely as the table underneath it

permits. And that's a good concept to teach to our patients, especially when they're coming in with

slight asymmetry. Sometimes I'll see someone with an asymmetric smile where one side of the lip is

thinner, falls lower, or hangs differently. And I always need to remind

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