💡 We Design the Face’s ‘Line’ — Not Just Simple Volume Restoration

Hello, I’m Director Shin Doo-han of Doohan Plastic Surgery. 👨‍⚕️

Today, I’d like to introduce a fat grafting case of a patient who visited us because they felt their face lacked dimension and were worried about their side profile line.

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✔ This may be helpful if you have concerns like these.

If your forehead is flat or sunken, making your side profile look plain

If the area under the cheekbones or the front cheek lacks volume, making your face look flat

If you often hear that you look sharp or tired overall

⠀ In such cases, fat grafting is needed not just to add volume, but to structurally redesign the overall facial line in a three-dimensional way.

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💉 Procedure Information

✔ Treatment areas: forehead + side cheek + front cheek

✔ Method: autologous fat grafting (micro-grafting after refinement)

✔ Goal: improve three-dimensionality of the side of the face, create softer contours, and improve the natural line

⠀ 💉 Pre-procedure diagnosis points

In this case,

The issue was that the face lacked dimension more on the side view (side profile) than from the front.

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✔ Flat forehead

✔ Hollow volume under the cheekbones, making the center of the face look plain

✔ No volume in the front cheek, creating a monotonous and long-looking line from under the eyes to the chin

⠀ Rather than simply filling one area,

The key was a three-dimensional design that harmoniously connects the flow from the forehead to the front cheek and side cheek.

In cases like this, fat grafting that simply fills sunken areas alone

makes it difficult to naturally improve the overall impression.

The important point is the ‘three-dimensional design’ that connects the flow from the forehead to the side cheek and front cheek.

🔬 Fat refinement and micro-divided grafting The harvested fat is refined so that only pure fat cells remain,

and then it is microscopically layered and dispersed according to the skin thickness and tissue structure of each area.

This method

✔ increases the survival rate

✔ helps it settle naturally without a foreign-body sensation

✔ allows stable results to be maintained over time without being excessive

📐 Design tailored to the individual’s facial flow Rather than a procedure that simply ‘fills what is hollow,’

The key is design planning that organically connects the forehead → side cheek → front cheek → cheekbone line in a curved shape.

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👨‍⚕️ In this case, the following approach was taken

Flat forehead → soft and defined side line completed with a curved volume design

Sunken front cheekbone & side cheek → natural cheekbone shape created by restoring central volume

✨If you are considering fat grafting

Fat grafting is not simply about “putting in” volume

It is a highly technical procedure that designs the flow of the face.

If the skin condition, volume, fat survival rate, and facial proportions of each area are not precisely considered,

unnecessary overgrafting

survival failure

asymmetry or lumpiness

and other problems can occur.

😊 Doohan Plastic Surgery ✔ a design that is not excessive ✔ a refinement process to increase the survival rate ✔ a three-dimensional approach tailored to the facial line

We focus on creating natural and stable results through these principles.

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Fat grafting is not about ‘filling the face,’ but about ‘designing the face’

⠀ At Doohan Plastic Surgery, we do not view fat grafting as simple volume supplementation.

We design it precisely by considering not only the volume of each area, but also the facial bone structure, skin thickness, and the flow of the existing contours.

⠀ ✍ In closing

Dissatisfaction with the side profile line is a concern that more people relate to than you might think.

⠀ When used well, fat grafting

can soften and add dimension to the overall facial impression without complex surgery.

⠀ If you want natural three-dimensionality, volume that is not excessive,

and harmony across the entire facial line,

we recommend consulting a clinic that can provide professional design and a detailed approach.