Page 19 - Southdown Dental Implant Book

18 | GETYOURSMILEBACK:EVERYTHINGYOUNEEDTOKNOW... This change in your facial muscles causes wrin- kles to appear before their time. Your cheeks begin to change shape as well; and in the end, your continually deteriorating jawbone and loss of jaw height in the back causes your nose to point down, and your chin to point up – giving you a witch-like appearance. Bone loss can make you look “old” before your time If this isn’t bad enough, your lips lose support and collapse into themselves, and becoming flat- tened and puckered – which further “ages” your appearance.