title: Illusion of volume loss.
abstract: Facial aging can create an appearance of volume loss and responds to volume enhancement in certain clinical scenarios. Actual fat loss is an illusion created by the inter-relationship of the different tissue types. The purpose of this article is to provide the anatomical, clinical, and research evidence to differentiate the contributions to facial aging from gravity's effects on soft tissue, fat loss, and skeletal remodeling, explaining the illusion.
authors.affiliation: Section of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Physicians Building, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Neil A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.affiliation: Section of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Physicians Building, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toman
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000473:pathology*; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000473:pathology; D006112:Gravitation; D006801:Humans; D012060:Rejuvenation; D015361:Rhytidoplasty