The misunderstanding of facial contouring surgery

Facial contouring surgery, it's a misunderstanding that if bones are cut a lot, your face will be small and pretty.

    These days, interest in facial bone surgery is growing in order to make a small and lean face. Facial contouring surgery includes a cheek bone reduction, jaw reduction, long-curve jaw reduction, and tip of chin reduction. During a consultation, people tell me "I have a nerve line on my chin, and I want you to cut it all under the nerve line." That’s because people think more the bone is cut, the smaller their face will be. However, the fundamental purpose of facial contouring surgery is to change facial features through the bone surgery, not to reduce the size of a face.

However, it is more accurate to assume that some parts of the face can be reduced during surgery, making the outer part of the face or the larger part of the face look better which is included in the process.

A facial contouring surgery is a big surgery, so that there are a lot of problems to consider. In fact, many of the problems with a facial contouring surgery are caused by too much cuts.

Cutting or trimming bones during surgery is important. but the skin and cartilage surrounding the bone.is more important Therefore, when a bone is cut, the skin and cartilage of the cut part must react together to change the actual facial shape.

Responses vary depending on elasticity, and the skin's response is limited, so if you cut a large amount of bones in the area that are not elastic, the skin and the cartilage may not stick to the bone and cause sagging. Therefore, the amount of surgery should be derived by considering the individual's elasticity and how much it works when the bone is cut.

For example, the cause of drooping, which is a lot of concern in cheek bone reduction is because more bones have been cut unnecessarily. Bones have skin and other cartilage attached together, and when the bones are removed, the upper part of the cheek will left and it result in sagging.

Lee Jin-soo, head of Faceline Plastic Surgery, said, "By cutting bones in the front and the back, then moving them in the inner and rear directions, we can lower the risk of dropping cheeks.”

The same goes for jaw reduction surgery.

For the small, lean V-line from the front, there are some people say "cut it below the nerve line" and "cut it to the point where it won't die," and this increases the chances of your jawline becoming bumpy and sagging. The flesh which is had been cut too much is not able to stick to the bone.

Lee Jin-soo, director of Faceline Plastic Surgery, said, "All facial contouring surgery does not make the face becomes smaller by the amount of cutting. Therefore, rather than asking doctor to cut down as many nerve lines as they can, you can naturally turn into pretty faces when you have plan to match the amount of surgery that each individual's cartilage responds to the bone.