What Is Ozempic Face and How To Combat It

Dr Darren Mckeown

Published by Dr Darren McKeown

Date posted — 6.05.25

Ozempic and other similar types of medication, like Mounjaro, have gained popularity as effective medications for weight loss, often helping individuals achieve their desired weight goals rapidly. However, a noticeable side effect termed “Ozempic face” has become increasingly common. Understanding this condition can help you effectively manage and reverse its visible signs.

What is Ozempic face and what causes it?

‘Ozempic face’ refers to the noticeable facial changes resulting from rapid weight loss, typically involving loss of volume and elasticity in facial skin. As weight decreases quickly, the face can lose supportive fat, leading to sagging skin, sunken cheeks, increased wrinkles, and an overall prematurely aged appearance. This condition became widely recognised due to its association with individuals using weight-loss medications such as Ozempic.

Can Ozempic face improve naturally over time?

Unfortunately, once facial volume is lost due to rapid weight loss, natural recovery is limited unless weight is regained, which typically isn’t a desired option. Even with weight regain, it is common to regain the fat in other areas of the body, like the hips and thighs, but it is unusual to regain the volume in the areas of the face where it is desirable. However, several treatments can effectively restore lost volume, reduce wrinkles, and rejuvenate your appearance:

  • Non-invasive procedures: Skin-tightening treatments and radiofrequency therapies can help improve skin elasticity.
  • Injectables: Dermal fillers are the mainstay of volume restoration in our practice. The reason we favour them is that they are minimally invasive, long-lasting and low risk, particularly compared with alternatives such as fat transfer and facial implants.
  • Facelift surgery: Provides a comprehensive and long-lasting solution to sagging skin and severe volume loss.

Facelift – the key to reversing Ozempic face

Facelifts offer a highly effective solution for reversing the signs of ageing caused by rapid weight loss. A facelift works by lifting and repositioning underlying facial tissues and skin, restoring youthful firmness and smoothing wrinkles. At McKeown Medical, we provide various facelift options tailored to meet your specific needs:

  • Non-Surgical Facelift: Ideal for mild volume loss, offering rejuvenation with minimal downtime. As well as restoring volume in the face, in the non-surgical facelift, we combine this with laser treatment to improve the texture of the skin and reduce the signs of fine lines and wrinkles.
  • Volumetric Facelift: Targets deeper volume loss, restoring youthful fullness naturally across the entire face. This is often our first step for patients who have significant facial volume loss.
  • The Quantum Lift: A minimally invasive middle-ground option combining Quantum RF skin tightening with precision Power Assisted Liposuction (PAL) to tighten tissue beneath the skin and refine the jawline. Suited to patients whose skin laxity is more pronounced than fillers can address, but who are not yet ready for a surgical facelift.
  • Deep Plane Face & Neck Lift: Addresses more extensive sagging by repositioning deeper facial layers, resulting in a naturally refreshed appearance. This is especially effective for sagging in the cheeks, jawline and neck.
  • Full Facelift: Comprehensive facial rejuvenation that corrects extensive signs of ageing and sagging by combining the deep plane face and neck lift with other procedures such as eyelid surgery or laser resurfacing.

Explore our gallery to view remarkable before-and-after transformations demonstrating the natural, youthful results our patients achieve.

Expert facelift treatment at McKeown Medical

Regaining your youthful appearance after rapid weight loss is entirely achievable. At McKeown Medical, our expert team is committed to delivering natural, undetectable facelift results that rejuvenate and restore confidence in your appearance.

At McKeown Medical, we can help you achieve your dream appearance after your weight loss journey. Book a consultation today to discuss our available treatment options.

Dr Darren Mckeown

Dr Darren McKeown

Our founder, Dr Darren McKeown, is renowned for his expertise and artistry with dermal fillers. As a peer-reviewed medical author, he is passionate about treatments that stand up to scientific scrutiny. Above all, Dr McKeown believes in a global approach; delivering flawless results – and rejuvenation that lasts.

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Once again, the combination treatment wins the day! 

This patient came to us hating her neck and jowls, but she would not consider anything invasive. Treating the neck is always a challenge especially with non-invasive treatments only. 

For this patient we first of all reduced the fat under the chin using CoolSculpting, then we did some hyaluronic acid under the mandible to define the jaw and finally we did some Sofwave to tighten the skin.

 The patient is over the moon with her results. What do you think?
I genuinely think the Quantum Lift is changing what is possible for patients who want to improve their jawline and neck, but do not want to undergo facelift surgery.

I have used earlier generations of skin-tightening technology and, honestly, I was often underwhelmed by the results. This is different.

By combining precise power-assisted liposuction, targeted treatment of the neck muscle where needed, and QuantumRF skin tightening, we can address the three things that most commonly age the lower face and neck: muscle, fat and skin.

This patient is shown just 24 hours after treatment. There is still swelling to settle, but the early change in her jawline and neck contour is already clear.

I have also included clips from the procedure for anyone who likes seeing the technical side of what we do.

Would you consider a minimally invasive alternative to facelift surgery for your jawline or neck, or would you rather go straight to surgery?
The biggest mistake I see after weight loss? People choose a treatment before understanding what's actually causing their loose skin.

Not all "loose skin" is the same, which is why the right treatment for one person can be completely wrong for another.

If you've lost weight and aren't sure which option is right for you, the first step isn't choosing a device. It's getting the right diagnosis.

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