Facial Contouring Review: Before-and-After Results You’ll Regret Not Knowing About

Hello.

I am Director Lee Won of 21 Plastic Surgery.

Today, through an actual patient case, I’d like to share the three types of facial contouring surgery and a facial contouring review.

Contour surgery can be divided into square jaw surgery, cheekbone reduction surgery, and chin tip surgery.

These three procedures are often chosen by people who want to refine the overall facial line, but depending on an individual’s skeletal structure, some people undergo only one or two of them.

In the past, contour surgery was often viewed negatively because it involves shaving bone.

However, with advances in modern medical technology and growing interest in appearance, more and more people are visiting hospitals after reading facial contouring reviews.

But contour surgery should not be decided based on facial contouring reviews alone!!!

Since surgery involves working with bone, accurate diagnosis and planning are more important than anything else.

Unlike other parts of the body, once bone is damaged and removed, it does not regenerate, so if excessive resection is performed without considering my facial skeleton or bone thickness at all, the face shape can become unnatural, and side effects such as cheek sagging may occur... So what should you do??

This is the most important part.

For a satisfying result, it is important to accurately consider your own skeletal structure and bone thickness and find the optimal balance.

Front/side before surgery

The patient visited our hospital after struggling with a wide, flat face shape.

Usually, people with a bumpy facial contour line undergo contour surgery more often, but even if the facial contour line is not bumpy, people whose faces look wide or flat also often undergo contour surgery.^^

This patient was also such a case, and wanted a face with a more pronounced frontal effect overall and an oval face shape.

The chin tip was not particularly long, but since the patient wanted it to look slightly shorter, we planned it so that the chin tip would appear shorter and slimmer, with a feel somewhere between a natural U-line and a glamorous V-line.

These days, when most people come in for contour surgery, they usually undergo only square jaw reduction surgery or cheekbone reduction surgery, and do not often come in thinking specifically about the chin tip.

The reason I am saying this is that in cases like this, if the square jaw and cheekbones become slimmer and narrower but the chin tip remains unchanged, the overall facial balance can be disrupted, and in some cases the face can appear longer^^;;

In such cases, I strongly recommend considering chin tip surgery as well.

Surgical plan

Cheekbone reduction surgery: Rotation & reduction (4mm/4mm) plate fixation

Square jaw surgery: Long curved resection (10mm), cortical bone rasping

Chin tip T-osteotomy reduction surgery: (6~7mm) width osteotomy

Fat grafting: forehead, nasolabial fold area

Before/after surgery X-ray

As you can see from the patient’s X-ray, the left cheekbone is protruding higher.

Because there was a difference in bone height, the amount of soft tissue was also different, so we proceeded to achieve a certain degree of symmetry on both sides.

Before surgery (left) / 1 week after (right)

This is one week after surgery. Even with swelling present one week after surgery, you can clearly see that the facial line has become much slimmer.

Because the patient did not have much bleeding, there was only a yellowish bruise instead of a dark bruise, and recovery was fast. So the swelling and bruising will probably go down quickly too, and recovery should be fast.

Before surgery (left) / 1 month after (right)

After one month, most of the swelling had subsided.

Recovery speed may vary depending on whether there was bleeding, so sufficient rest and care are important.

If there was significant bleeding, you should note that the recovery period may take more than 1 to 2 months.

Before surgery (left) / 2 months after (right)

If you look at the photo from the two-month mark, all of the swelling has now gone down.

This is exactly the frontal effect of facial contouring. The facial line has become smoother and more feminine than before.

It seems to have become the oval face shape the patient wanted.^^

Before/after surgery X-ray

If you compare the before-and-after X-rays, the difference in volume between the cheekbones and the jaw is enormous.

The protruding cheekbones have been refined, and you can see that the square jaw and lower jaw have also been smoothed out.

Today, together with an actual patient case, we took time to look at a facial contouring review.

Bone surgery for the face requires not only a CT scan but also an accurate diagnosis.

This is because if you receive the wrong diagnosis or proceed with surgery without considering your facial proportions, the facial balance can be disrupted and the face can become awkward..

So no matter how good a facial contouring review may look, be sure to visit several hospitals and make your decision, and you should be able to achieve good results.

Thank you.

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