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Unilateral sunken cheek
Unilateral sunken cheek is where one cheek has less supportive tissue beneath the skin, giving a sunken appearance.
Dr. Robert Kwok reviewed this
35 year experience in Pediatrics
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Unilateral sunken cheek?
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A 43-year old asked:
Sunken cheek due to tooth extraction. Advice?
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A 25-year old female asked:
My temple has sunken looks like my upper cheek bone sticking out what could it be?
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A 40-year old male asked:
1. I have read that Chancres are ulcers with a clean sunken base? Can chancres have a white base and start off as a large lump(almost like cheek has been bitten and swollen) and get smaller with time? 2. Can Syphilis be passed orally without a sore?
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A 29-year old male asked:
Tight neck and shoulders, discomfort in jaw, uneven neck muscles, facial muscle wasting, sunken in around right side of nose and cheek. Uneven shoulde?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I have a sunken soft spot type thin on top of head and dont remember hitting it
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A member asked:
What is causing a hole to form in my head? It was a lump but now the area is sunken in, it only hurts when i push on it.
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A 30-year old female asked about a female:
Soft spot feels sunken in when holding 6w girl upright not when lying down. Veins on head look visible and feel dented or deep cut. Are these normal?
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A 34-year old female asked:
One of my strawberry birthmarks hurts (one top of head) scalp sunken in with mound around it that is painful. Alopecia is spreading. Clueless?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Are sunken veins on forehead normal after having baby 6 months ago and completed nursing 1 month ago?started phentermine diet & Alopecia Ariotaon head
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A 46-year old asked:
How can you fill out sunken cheeks?
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A 31-year old male asked:
Would having all 8 rear molars extracted over the past few years cause my cheeks to appear sunken in?
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A 59-year old asked:
I woke up with my face feeling odd I noticed my cheeks looked weird I have a portion that is swollen and my skin is sunken in on top and bottum ?
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A 34-year old asked:
Can bone on bone TMJ cause cause cheeks to look sunken in?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I have a unilateral temporal pain radiating to upper left cheek. Rx: been on citalopram for a year. Results: less severe pain only. What's problem?
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A 40-year old female asked:
Sinus infection 2 mos ago didn't quite go away with meds. Little better still blocked up, why do both cheeks under cheekbone appear sunken in now?
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A 28-year old male asked:
My cheeks and eyes have sunken, although I am of 74 kg and having a BMI of 22.5.What could be the reason and possible non medical remedies.
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A female asked:
Will i still be able to wear my usual make-up right after my sculptra treatment? I am very concentrated on my looks and I do not leave the house without my make-up on. After a sculptra treatment for the sunken areas around my mouth and cheeks, will i need
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A 27-year old female asked:
Can unilateral spots&blackheads on cheek be caused by TMJ disorder, associated problems with ACL rupture/reconstruct', flat feet or something else?
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A 28-year old female asked:
My face looks like as if I'm starving! cheeks are very thin, eye sockets are sunken and its very pale. I eat well and drink adequate amount of water?
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A 44-year old female asked:
Pulsatile tinnitus, spasms-cheek, eye, facial fullness, sharp pain or numb. All symptoms intermittent, unilateral rt side. Carotid mra ok. Possibilities?
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A male asked:
Hit my head sitting back 2 weeks ago. I had recurring headaches for a few days but was fine for a week afterward, last night I had a unilateral painfu?
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A 25-year old female asked:
What is the percentage of unilateral femoral head retroversion in the population? Why did it take so long to be diagnosed and only b/c of injury too?
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A 33-year old female asked:
A grey patch of hair developed on my head in 2018 (it's positioned like a fat strand at the mid frontal of my hair). Also in 2020 I developed unilateral SSHL :(. Do you think these two things can be linked? Waardenburg sydrome? or just Poliosis?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Can optic nerve head drusen cause sudden unilateral loss of peripheral vision due to a spontaneous vascular event?
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A 29-year old male asked:
How rare are retrocochlear lesions/masses? I have had 2 normal IAMs/Head MRIs in 2013 + 2014 & I understand acoustic neuromas are very rare but what about the other types of retrocochlear lesions/masses involved in progressive unilateral hearing loss?
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A 32-year old male asked:
Mild polypoid mucosal thickening of the anterior right maxillary sinus wall, 0.8 cm found on head MRI, asymptomatic. Should I worry (unilateral polyp?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I am having unilateral headache (rt side head, forehead and eye) while having masterbation so what are the causes and treatment?
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A 22-year old female asked:
I have had this painful unilateral headache behind my eye since 5am and on R. side of head. Why does my Head feel sore too? Made worse by movement
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A 37-year old male asked:
What would typical next steps be if head/neck MRI/MRV found unilateral internal jugular vein compression by C1 transverse process? Symptoms: intermittent difficulty concentrating; intermittent very mild disequilibrium for 2 years. Otherwise normal?
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