Powerful Long-Lasting Midlife Lifting

Hello, I’m Lee Seong-joon, Chief Director of the Seoul branch of Liting Plastic Surgery.

As medical technology has advanced, more and more people are making efforts to enhance their own beauty in various ways.

Accordingly, interest in lifting is also rising day by day.

Everyone has different facial features, skin thickness, lifestyles, values and standards for beauty, and needs, but time flows equally for everyone.

Aging does not consider anyone and does not bypass anyone; it appears to everyone.

That is why these days, many people start looking into and preparing for lifting procedures and surgeries from their early to mid-20s, before visible signs of aging become prominent.

At Liting Plastic Surgery as well, although we see many patients of various types, we tell them that managing skin sagging and wrinkles early is helpful.

If you take care of it early, while you are still young, the pace of aging can slow down, and the method of midlife lifting you seek later in life may also change.

If you are in your middle years with significant skin sagging?

However, skin aging is one of those things whose importance is difficult to realize until you feel it directly on your own skin.

In addition, when you are busy living life, it is not easy to pay attention and manage it at every moment.

Even people who thought they had good skin and looked young, and believed they would not age, can suddenly end up looking older under the strain of time.

The important point is that the degree and condition of skin sagging vary from person to person, and the appropriate method must be applied according to each individual’s situation and type.

If the sagging is mild and mainly involves a decrease in elasticity within the skin in people in their 20s to 30s, methods such as creating volume through injections or increasing elasticity through laser treatments can be applied first, and if necessary, noticeable changes can be pursued through methods such as thread lifting.

However, if you are in your 40s to 50s or older, where physical skin sagging has already worsened and deep wrinkles have formed due to damage to the dermal layer, these procedures have limitations, and surgical methods can be planned for midlife lifting.

What is a facelift?

For those troubled by deep wrinkles and severe skin sagging, such as marionette lines, thick jowls and forehead wrinkles, drooping eyes, a collapsed facial line and double chin, and neck wrinkles, we recommend a facelift as a midlife lifting procedure.

As the name suggests, it physically lifts the skin across the entire face.

Because the excess, stretched skin is removed and then fixed in place, a firmer skin condition can be restored immediately.

A facelift involves making an incision starting from the temple, along the line in front of the ear, and extending to the earlobe and behind the ear. Since the skin is pulled appropriately in each direction, a powerful yet natural change can be expected.

However, the incision area is not small, so there may be more physical burden compared with other lifting procedures and surgeries.

Still, if a precise plan tailored to each person’s facial features and degree of aging is established, it is possible to restore firmness from 10 or 20 years ago.

What is V-neck lifting?

V-neck lifting is also one of the methods often performed as a midlife lifting procedure.

These days, as functional cosmetics that help manage aging are widely used, many people pay close attention to the face, but surprisingly many do not pay much attention to the neck.

That is why people even say, “If you want to know someone’s real age, look at their neck wrinkles.”

As people age, not only horizontal neck lines, vertical neck lines, and fine wrinkles, but also a double chin caused by sagging under the chin can appear.

And even by precisely performing lifting only around the lower face and neck, you can create a much slimmer and younger-looking impression.

V-neck lifting is helpful for those who have severe sagging but are afraid of a facelift, or those who want a strong lift centered on the lower face, and it also helps reduce jowls, marionette lines, and sagging cheeks.

V-neck lifting is performed by making a V-shaped incision from the front of the earlobe to behind the ear, pulling the skin, and finishing by removing the sagging skin.

The key to strong longevity

These surgical lifting procedures provide powerful lifting effects, but how long and how naturally the results are maintained depends on the surgeon’s technique.

Since Liting Plastic Surgery focuses exclusively on lifting, we are continuously seeking methods with strong fixation and long-lasting maintenance through ongoing research and treatment.

The key lies in dissection of the SMAS layer and release of the retaining ligaments.

The SMAS layer is a skin layer that has only been studied academically for a few decades. It is a fundamental cause of wrinkles and aging, but it is still an area of active research.

To perform lifting precisely and maintain it for a long time, it is important to carefully dissect and lift even this SMAS layer.

It is also important to appropriately release the retaining ligaments in the area being lifted.

Because these are the ligaments that support the skin, if they are not released, the downward pulling force will continue to act even after the skin has been lifted, which can shorten the maintenance period.

Based on a high level of anatomical understanding of these skin layers and lifting surgery data, our clinic creates customized midlife lifting plans for each individual and delivers stable results.

A place with a variety of lifting plans

Maintaining this kind of lifting is also important.

No matter how powerfully it has been lifted, time keeps passing, and aging continues even after the lifting procedure.

Rather than a procedure or surgery focused only on immediate results, our clinic offers a variety of programs that can help you maintain a bright and youthful impression for a long time from a long-term perspective, so please visit Liting Plastic Surgery anytime.

Become younger tomorrow than you were yesterday!

Why SMAS layer lifting should be examined carefully