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What Is Ozempic Face and How To Combat It
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.
- 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.
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Ho ho ho everyone… It’s time for Santa!!!! 🎅🏻
Ok, so this is the one we’ve all been waiting for. Sofwave : the results, in our hands!!!
This is the first patient we treated with @sofwave.uk when we were assessing the machine and deciding whether or not to buy it. These are the patient`s own photos that she kept throughout the healing journey.
Now do you see why we are so excited?! 🤩
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We are now well up and running with @sofwave.uk , much to the excitement of the whole team in the clinic (we are all queuing up to get a shot!)
This is a little video of the treatment being performed, so you can see what the process is like and there is even a little early preview of the results at the end.
One of the best parts is that there is no downtime, so we can still fit it in before Christmas without worrying about redness in the party season!
What do you think?
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We`re absolutely delighted to introduce you to our lovely new doctor, Dr Sharon.
With over 30 years’ experience as a medical doctor and a decade specialising in aesthetic medicine, Dr Sharon brings exceptional skill, warmth and a deeply patient-centred approach to every treatment.
She joins us with extensive expertise in injectables, including advanced toxin and filler techniques, and will also be leading our regenerative aesthetics offering with Ameela polynucleotides and Ameela Exosomes - two of the most exciting developments in skin rejuvenation. She will also be offering Profhilo and Profhilo Structura!
We have a super exciting new addition to the clinic this week, with the launch of @sofwavemed.
Sofwave is an incredible skin tightening technology that has been around for five years now. I am never first to the queue with new devices because so many don’t deliver and disappear within a couple of years of launch. Sofwave however has continued to grow in popularity over the years and earlier this year I decided I had to find out what all the fuss was about.
I asked the reps to bring it round for us to play with and we treated a few of our patients to see what the results were like and, three months later not only was I signing the purchase order I was asking how quickly I could get one of the reps round to treat me 😊
Sofwave works using ultrasound waves to create a thermal injury to the deeper layers of the skin, initiating a healing response which over a period of several months results in a skin tightening effect.
I have trialled a number of ultrasound devices in the past and have never bought any of them because I was always disappointed in the results. There are a couple of things that I think makes Sofwave different.
First, it only goes to 1.5mm which means all of the energy is being delivered to the skin. Most other devices go down to 3 or 4mm, by which point you are past the skin and into the fat which can, if anything, have a worsening effect on volume loss. The second difference that I think is important is that it treats a bigger proportion of the surface area of the skin.
We have a new page on our website where you can read all about Sofwave and how it works, but for now, enjoy some of these before and afters that the manufacture supplied.
Let me know what you think!
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However, there are some situations where it can’t be avoided, especially when there is excess fat under the eye causing puffiness. This is exactly what this patient had and so the very talented @bramhallplasticsurgery performed an upper and lower blepharoplasty for him. Whilst we often do the upper eyelids without doing the lower eyelids, usually when we do the lower eyelids we always need to do the uppers too.
This patient is now a couple of months out from surgery and loving his result. What do you think?
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Thank you to this lovely patient who has kindly allowed us to share her results. She was particularly concerned about the fine lines and creases around her mouth, and underwent full-field laser resurfacing to target the deeper layers of the skin.
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If you’d like to see more detail and analysis of these results, check out the link to the blog post in our profile.
Aesthetic interventions are never far from the headlines and this week the media have been focused on comments made by the make up artist Bobbi Brown about her view of cosmetic procedures. I was on BBC Radio Scotland today talking about the issue.
My own view is that we should all age in the way we feel comfortable with - if you are happy with grey hair and wrinkles, then I absolutely admire you just as much as I admire those who feel differently and want a little help to keep the signs of ageing at bay. There is no right and wrong and there is no room for moral superiority. Just you be you!
Have a listen to the debate and let me know what you think in the comments!
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