Dimple plasty is considered to be a mature technology in plastic surgery, which mainly connects the dermis and the smiling muscle through surgery to form a depression at a specific position. At present, there are two commonly used methods, suture and intraoral incision. The suture method is to sew the muscle and dermis directly on the buccal fossa with silk thread to form a dimple.

The incision method of artificial dimple operation is to make an incision from buccal mucosa in the oral cavity and remove part of buccal fat at the fixed point of dimple, thus forming artificial dimple. This kind of operation has a large wound surface and is slightly more complicated than suture, but the effect is stable and can maintain a permanent effect.