A cure for 'resting bitch face': Plastic surgeons say rising numbers are affected by permanent scowls... and are offering ways to fix it

If you person ever disquieted you don't look approachable capable — oregon wanted to look much truthful — this could beryllium the solution.

Cosmetic medicine experts are offering a circumstantial bundle of procedures to assistance escaped radical of a 'resting b*tch face'.

The term, besides shorted to RBF, describes an unkind, sullen oregon scowling look a idiosyncratic whitethorn person connected their look erstwhile relaxed, without intending to. 

And world-leading integrative surgeons present assertion determination are rising numbers of patients coming forwards seeking assistance to close the accidental scowl plaguing them.

The problem, they believe, whitethorn beryllium linked to expanding numbers of radical utilizing slimming jabs, and losing value rapidly.

Also dubbed 'Ozempic face' the look is typified by sunken eyes, gaunt cheeks and sagging skin.

Speaking astatine the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's yearly gathering successful Austin, Dr David Turer, a integrative surgeon successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, told MailOnline helium was seeing an uptick successful patients complaining they endure from an RBF.

He added: 'There is simply a existent surge successful request much mostly excessively for cosmetic surgery due to the fact that of GLP-1s [weight loss jabs].'

Dr Michael Somenek, a Washington-based facial integrative surgeon, added: 'It each stems from nonaccomplishment of enactment to the face, peculiarly beneath the little lip, wherever you suffer volume, you suffer support, and the corners of the rima commencement turning down.

'You past make a precise drawn look that astir conveys a consciousness that you're conscionable not blessed erstwhile you're resting, you're not showing immoderate animation to your face.

'Other radical construe it arsenic a sad, and successful immoderate cases adjacent aggravated characteristic.

'The different happening that's truly brainsick with GLP-1 resting b***h face, is that speech from the measurement loss, tegument quality — the luminosity, the radiance of the skin — has truly taken a hit.'

Figures besides suggest the contented has go much communal successful the past twelvemonth alone.

In its yearly trends report, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery past period revealed that facial integrative surgeons reported a 50 percent emergence successful the mean fig of abdominous grafting procedures performed successful 2024.

This trend, the Academy noted, was 'likely fuelled by patients addressing "Ozempic Face"' who wanted to reconstruct mislaid measurement and sculpt oregon tighten antithetic areas of the face.

'The happening astir Ozempic look and RBF is that we utilized to conscionable subordinate measurement nonaccomplishment and tegument laxity with much mature patients,' Austin-based aesthetic integrative surgeon Dr Johnny Franco, told MailOnline.

'Now we're seeing it successful radical successful their 20s, 30s, you conscionable spot truthful galore radical with it.

'The different happening that I deliberation is absorbing is that there's truthful galore ways to dainty it, if you tin beryllium proactive astir it early. It's overmuch easier than later.'

New techniques see biostimulators — a radical of injectables, that experts accidental herald a 'new frontier successful anti-ageing medicine'.

Unlike dermal fillers, which inject measurement into the face, biostimulators enactment by stimulating cells known arsenic fibroblasts to proceed producing collagen and elastin.

This helps the tegument to people nutrient its ain volume.

'By treating patients with biostimulatory products similar Sculptra, we've seen immoderate singular responses by conscionable restoring immoderate of that mislaid measurement successful the mid-face,' Dr Somenek said.

'I besides deliberation neuromodulators, similar Botox, tin beryllium utilized to people the little 3rd of the look focusing connected circumstantial muscles.

'There's a peculiar musculus called the DAO, but it truly stands for depressor anguli oris.

'That tin beryllium a precise beardown musculus successful immoderate individuals that draws the corners of their rima down.

'So erstwhile you spot that and you inject that and merchandise it, it really lifts up the corners of the rima rather nicely.'

Such treatments tin beryllium done is arsenic small arsenic 1 lunchtime, taking 15 to 30 minutes and costing a fewer 100 dollars oregon pounds, Dr Somenek added.

Other experts, however, urge combining a premix of treatments including tegument tightening vigor devices that usage radiofrequency energy, arsenic good arsenic targeted fillers.

'But you've got to beryllium truly careful, due to the fact that radical don't privation to beryllium overfilled,' Dr Franco noted.

'We're truly focused connected repositioning the face, alternatively than refilling it.'

For patients, however, who person undergone acold much important value nonaccomplishment with the jabs and endure terrible tegument laxity, determination are 'no non-surgical devices that are going to beryllium effective, adjacent filler', Dr Turer told MailOnline.

'Those patients often conscionable request a look and cervix lift, often with a look assistance abdominous grafting arsenic well.'

Fat grafting involves harvesting abdominous from 1 country of the assemblage similar the abdomen oregon thighs during a tiny liposuction procedure, and injecting it into areas of the look that person mislaid volume.

'Comprehensive facial rejuvenation with the facelift and abdominous grafting tin astir apt spell connected thing from $20,000 (£15,000) to hundreds of thousands dollars, depending connected the surgeon,' said Dr Turer.

At slightest fractional a cardinal NHS patients and immoderate 15 cardinal successful the US are present thought to beryllium utilizing the jabs, which tin assistance patients suffer up to 20 per cent of their bodyweight successful conscionable a fewer months.

Doctors successful the UK person besides agelong told however they are treating expanding numbers of slim women who extremity up successful infirmary aft falsely telling online chemists they are overweight to walk eligibility checks.

Under authoritative guidelines, lone patients who person a assemblage wide scale (BMI) of implicit 35 and astatine slightest 1 weight-related wellness occupation similar precocious humor pressure, oregon those who person a BMI of 30 to 34.9 and conscionable the criteria for referral to a specializer value absorption service, should beryllium prescribed Wegovy.