If there is significant sunken cheeks, it is mainly considered to be related to aging, excessive wasting, genetic factors, or loss of teeth in the mouth. If the sunken cheeks have no significant impact on the patient’s daily life and there are no physical abnormalities, no special treatment is needed. If it is accompanied by other abnormalities, the cause should be clarified in time to avoid delaying the disease. First, the reason: 1, aging: generally with the gradual growth of age, the elderly skin elasticity gradually decline, muscle relaxation, fat decline, so the cheeks can be formed bilaterally in a symmetrical depression, generally accompanied by skin relaxation, belongs to the natural phenomenon of human growth, development; 2, malnutrition: due to excessive dieting, anorexia, or suffering from gastrointestinal diseases, such as gastritis, peptic ulcer, resulting in reduced eating. When the body is excessively thin, it can lead to obvious sunken cheeks, and patients are often accompanied by generalized weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms; 3, tooth loss: some patients have lost more teeth, which may lead to the remaining teeth to grow out of alignment, poor bite and other problems, thus affecting the facial muscles, resulting in obvious sunken cheeks. There are also some patients who have lost all their teeth and have atrophied alveolar bone, which can cause obvious sunken cheeks inward bilaterally; 4, trauma: when the cheek suffers direct external injury, patients may have obvious sunken cheeks due to soft tissue contusions, facial bone fractures, etc., usually accompanied by obvious local pain, redness and swelling or even breakage; 5, heredity: some people’s parents themselves have facial features with obvious sunken cheeks, so it may be acquired through genetic acquisition, which usually does not have a significant impact on life. In addition, genetic diseases such as aspartic glucosaminuria can also lead to pronounced sunken cheeks in young children, along with mental retardation and speech impairment. Treatment: 1. Improve diet: For obvious sunken cheeks caused by malnutrition or under-eating, attention should be paid to eating more high-protein, high-calorie, high-fat foods, such as eggs, meat, dairy products, etc., while paying attention to nutritional balance to ensure the normal daily caloric needs of the body, after a period of reasonable diet, the symptoms of obvious sunken cheeks will also be significantly improved; 2. Treat the original For example, gastrointestinal diseases can be examined by gastroscopy and treated according to the diagnosis, often using the acid suppressant omeprazole and the gastric stimulant domperidone; for trauma or even fracture, the patient needs to go to the hospital to disinfect the injury, reset the fracture, bandage and other treatments, and generally use antibiotics such as erythromycin to fight infection; for patients with tooth Patients who have lost their teeth can choose to install live teeth, fixed dentures, implants and other methods of repair; those who are suspected of having anorexia need to seek the help of a psychiatrist; 3, medical aesthetics: generally for simple facial depression, such as aging, genetics, etc., if the patient has the pursuit of aesthetics, you can also choose medical aesthetic surgery after careful consideration, such as hyaluronic acid filling, autologous fat filling and other methods to improve. However, it is more important to choose a professional hospital or medical institution to avoid more serious consequences.