Many infants are born with cheek dimples because they generally have high levels of baby fat in their cheeks. As an infant grows, he begins to lose baby fat and the dimples may vanish. Some children maintain their dimples well into adolescence. Others may have dimples into young adulthood, but lose them as they mature. This is largely the result of constant changes in the facial muscles and fat throughout a person’s development.

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