It would seem that way, but I had the same thing happen to my buccal fat with SG. My surgeon said I experienced weight fluctuations, when in fact I had gained weight to the heaviest I've been just to see if it was that, and it's not. My face looks emaciated after SG, whereas before my buccal fat looked a bit chubby with the different bone structure.
If I get my hands on some of my pics, I'll black out my identifying features to show you the difference.
If that were the case you should have been able to see proof of this with before and after x-rays. Do you happen to have that?
I just think this is going overboard, I need a bigger sample size to be fully convinced. The most negative reports that I've seen about SG aside from numbness are from women who feel that their new chin makes them look more masculine(this would be great for me as a male who is looking into a SG for the future) but not this issue of somehow losing massive amounts of facial width.
There's also the issue of course that some people are really not good candidates for this surgery for a number of reasons. Irresponsible surgeons would still accept these patients for this surgery.