Why Consultation and Design Are Important Before Facial Contouring Surgery—Don’t Be Careless!!

Hello. I’m Dr. Jo Hyun-woo of Instar Plastic Surgery.

If you have consistently read my columns or watched my YouTube videos, you may have heard me say this before,

but the preoperative consultation I’m talking about today is even more important than the surgery itself.

Many people who come in for revision facial contouring surgery say things like, “The doctor said he would make it pretty,”

or “My consultation with the doctor lasted one minute.”

If the procedure is carried out without discussing the areas the patient wants to change before surgery, of course it may be possible to create a beautiful bone shape,

but that shape may not be the face the patient actually wants.

Therefore, before surgery, I make an effort to have 충분한 상담 with patients to understand the needs and preferences they want.

Even among people who come in after being told they absolutely need all three contouring procedures, once we actually talk,

if their main concern is the cheekbones, I recommend starting with cheekbone surgery first.

Even if only the concern is resolved, many people feel satisfied and can live with more confidence.

Beauty has no absolute standard.

A face that one person thinks is beautiful may not seem so to someone else, and because each doctor has a different standard for beauty,

simply trusting everything to the surgeon can lead to truly disastrous results.

3D Cheekbone Reduction Surgery

If you go for cheekbone surgery and are told that the jaw should be done at the same time because otherwise the jaw will look more prominent,

it can actually result in a face that has less charm.

So it is extremely important to explain what areas you personally feel are your concern before surgery, and to have surgery that changes that specific area.

For example, if someone who feels their face looks long comes in for a consultation and undergoes square jaw surgery without any special discussion,

it may lead to the worst result, making the facial bones look even longer.

If I show this with a bone image,

If a person has the square jaw bone shown in the photo above,

and undergoes square jaw surgery like this, those people will 100% end up with a face that looks longer.

If you want to reduce the length of the face, you must look at the CT scan and your own face in advance and have surgery that preserves the angle of the square jaw while cutting the chin in a long curve,

so that the face can appear shorter, like in the next CT image.

There are several things to consider even when performing cheekbone surgery.

Whether simply pushing in the side cheekbones is appropriate for the face ratio, how much of the 45-degree cheekbone should be reduced to match the person's facial proportions,

and in people with prominent cheekbones near the eyes, the osteotomy line of the bone may also change.

Don’t just call for “as much as possible!!” without thinking; it is important to review several conditions through consultation

and design a procedure that fits your own facial bones.

230-degree cheekbone reduction surgery, square jaw surgery, chin surgery (reshaping by rotating and shaving)

Many people are very curious about how their face will change before surgery.

In fact, simulated before-and-after plastic surgery was very popular in the past.

But what was important was that in many cases, those simulations did not actually match the real outcome.

So these days, simulated plastic surgery is not done as much.

Then how can we predict facial changes?

It is very helpful to refer to the surgical results of people whose faces are similar to yours.

If the bone shape and soft tissue are similar, you can think that almost similar results can be achieved.

230-degree cheekbone reduction surgery

Therefore, during consultation, be sure to refer to the results of other surgical patients,

and rather than simply expecting a face that looks prettier, compare before-and-after results with faces similar to your own.

That can help you predict the future a little better.

I believe that if you do the consultation well before surgery, more than 80% of the surgery is already successful.

If we assume that the surgical methods and the skill to produce results are something any experienced specialist would know and have,

the difference in results after surgery can be said to be determined by the consultation before surgery.

I sincerely hope you can create good results through enough consultation before surgery.^^ Please take care of your health during seasonal changes, and I’ll be back with more useful content next time.

Thank you.