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Contact: Donna Steph Hansard
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UT Southwestern Medical Center
Caption: Drs. Rod Rohrich (right) and Joel Pessa have discovered that the human face is made up of individual fat compartments that gain and lose fat at different times and different rates as people age. Facial aging is, in part, characterized by how these separate compartments change as we grow older.
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