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Dr. Jinsoo Lee’s Plastic Surgery Essay: “Doctor, you're a patriot!"

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Dr. Jinsoo Lee’s Plastic Surgery Essay: “Doctor, you're a patriot!" Recently, the person who helped me to translate the Chinese patient I have undergone the surgery. The Chinese patient who I operated on was a Chinese person whom the interpreter knew before. The Chinese person was troubled with her protruded mouth, but she was consulted by me and recently underwent surgery to correct the mouth protrusion. The procedure of correcting the protrusion is usually surgery to remove the extracted teeth along the gingival bone corresponding to the position of the tooth, and to move and fix the anterior teeth and gum bones that protrude when the extraction is corrected. The official name of this surgery is an anterior segment osteotomy, often referred to as a protruded mouth surgery. Surgery is very precise and there are 3-D spatially complex parts, which makes it difficult to perform during facial surgery. Because of the high degree of difficulty in surg...