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No.19 Cosmetic essay by Dr. Lee Jin soo- Mazinga Z jaw vs (Taekwon) V line

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  Face contouring surgery is a surgery that changes the facial shape by trimming the facial bones. It is developed first among all the face contouring surgeries and it is the operation which is performed the most in the lower jaw (mandible in anatomical term). It is a surgery to trim angled large and wide jaw and turn it into a slim and narrow jaw.   When I trimmed the jaw, I first performed surgery on the mandibular angle area. The angled area from the lower jaw to under the ears is called mandibular angle in anatomical term, and the surgery to trim this is often referred to as 'square jaw surgery' and is a representative of face contouring surgeries.     On the jaw, there is the nerve located in the tip of the chin, which is responsible for sense of the tip of the chin and the lower lip. The location where that nerve comes out is a little bit forward than the middle of the jaw line approximately. So, when the operation is performed on the mandibular angle...