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      Hello, this is Faceline plastic surgery clinic.  Today, we would like to talk about facial shape and elasticity.  As inhabitants of Earth, we are inevitably affected by the force of gravity, as discovered by Newton’s law of universal gravitation.  We live under the influence of the force pulling us downward toward the ground due to gravity.  The skin surrounding our faces is no exception.  Despite being subjected to gravity, the shape around our facial skeleton is maintained, thanks to the elasticity inherent in the skin, even when not visibly sagging, the gravitational pull on the skin has an impact on our facial shape!  In 2008, aboard the international space station (ISS), Korean astronaut Yi Soyeon and her research team conducted a facing experiment to observe changes in human body. Using specialized imaging equipment, they captured images of faces to examine alterations resulting from the extremely low gravity in space. ...

Amedeo Modigliani (1884~1920) is regarded as one of the most handsome figures among the great artists of the time.   [Image source: Google] The handsome young man had a fatal flaw—his weak and delicate body, plagued by tuberculosis throughout his life.   Amedeo Modigliani (1884~1920) is regarded as one of the greatest handsome artists of his time, hailing from Italy. Despite his good looks, Modigliani suffered from a weak and delicate constitution, battling tuberculosis for his entire life. After receiving art education in Italy, Modigliani ventured to Paris at the age of 22 in 1907, embarking on the path of a professional artist. During his time in Paris, from 1910 onwards, he dedicated several years exclusively to sculpture. His sculptures were heavily influenced by African primitive art, which also had a significant impact on the contemporary Cubist sculptors. Modigliani mainly sculpted heads, featuring extremely narrow foreheads and very long noses as distin...

Facial contouring is a generic term for surgery changing the shape of the face by operating on facial bones. There are broadly two main methods of facial bone surgery. One is reducing bones by cutting or grinding them. Square jaw surgery is a representative surgery reducing bones. Another way is cutting the bones, then repositioning them. Such repositioning method is used for cheekbone or chin surgery. There is something that must be considered when it comes to changing the face shape by reducing jaw bone. Which is that change in bone responds to a different degree depending on what part of the jaw. For example, even if you cut the bone in a straight line as though cut with a ruler, unfortunately, the jawline that we see on the exterior does not result in a straight line. This is because each part of the jawline responds to the reduce jawbone to a different degree. So the areas that react well will go in while the areas that react less will appear relatively convex. And the more flesh ...

According to the law of universal gravity discovered by Newton, all objects living on Earth are affected a gravitational pull. We live under a gravitational force that pulls us downward toward the ground. The skin covering our face is also affected by this gravity. The reason why it still maintains the shape surrounding the facial skeleton even with this gravitational pull is due to the elasticity of skin itself. Although it is not apparent it is being stretched, the effect of gravity on skin has an effect on the face shape. [Image source: Google] In 2008, the International Space Station (ISS) located 385 kilometers off the ground conducted a body change experiment on Lee So-yeon, the first Korean astronaut. It involved taking images of her face with special filming equipment to observe the changes. Gravity weakens substantially in space, and a strange change occurred four days after landing on the ISS. Her face became slimmer, wrinkles on her skin like her forehead diminished, and her...

There was an experiment related to this content. It was an experiment conducted in 1974 by psychologists Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron at Columbia University called the ‘Capilano Suspension Bridge Study’ because it was conducted on a bridge over the Capilano River. There are two bridges along the Capilano River near Vancouver, Canada, one being a sturdy bridge built safely on a low river, and the other being a 1.5-meter wide and 70-meter high bridge suspended across a cliff, with a railing that is not very high, which makes it quite intimidating for people to walk over. [Capilano Suspension Bridge] For the experiment, men were divided into two groups, each walking across one of these bridges. A young, attractive woman stood waiting at the end of the bridge to conduct a survey, and the men were asked to contact her later if they were curious about the results.  9 of the 32 men in the group who crossed the dangerous bridge called the female interviewer back while only two of the men ...

There are people who advertise that they can perform orthognathic surgery quickly or that they can perform protruding mouth surgery quickly. Regardless of whatever surgery, if you have little experience, it takes more time as there is hesitance or you are not operating proficiently. Accordingly, it is true that surgery takes less time once you become familiar with the surgery from repetition. I think people who advertise fast surgery likely want to emphasize this. It could indicate that they have become skilled from sufficient experience. However, this reduction in surgery time occurs when you haven’t performed that many surgeries. Even if you continue to perform the same surgery for more than a few years, or even decades, the surgery duration does not continue to decrease. In my case, when I performed orthognathic surgery, for example, it took less and less and time until I had performed it about 50 times cumulatively. As for how long that took, the operation time gradually diminished...

I had written about bone gender in a previous posting. It was about the facial shape made of facial bones having gender traits. This time, I’ll be getting into the gender traits of facial bones themselves. People generally seem to consider facial bone surgery very complicated or difficult. Facial contouring surgery, which mainly trims the outer contour of the face, and orthognathic surgery, which changes the position of the upper and lower jaws, including the teeth, are the representative facial bone surgeries. Most of these surgeries are performed through the mucosa membrane inside the mouth, so you can barely see any scars on the exterior. Surgery starts with an incision in the mucous membrane of the mouth, followed by detachment. Detachment is the separation of the periosteum from the facial bone. The periosteum is a membrane that wraps around the bone and is attached to the bone. If you don't know what this is, think about the ribs you eat. When you bite into the meat on ribs, ...

Is plastic surgery necessary below a certain point of beauty? Is there a set standard like the cut line of a test, below which you need plastic surgery or it isn’t necessary if you surpass that standard? What are your thoughts? I don't think there's a set beauty standard that determines whether surgery is requisite. I don’t think plastic surgery is for unattractive people below a certain standard but for those who want to be prettier regardless of one’s current level of beauty.   This question is frequently asked at outpatient clinics. "Do I need plastic surgery?" My answer is the same every time. "There is no set standard requiring surgery. Plastic surgery is not a life and death situation like cancer surgery. It’s entirely based on your own needs, and whether or not you get plastic surgery it is a matter of your choice.” No matter how low the level of beauty objectively, you don't need plastic surgery if you don't have any complaints about your appearan...

Humans have two eyes. When viewing objects through these two eyes, we have spatial vision that enables us to assess the distance from these objects. Distinguishing the distance from the object, we can perceive where it protrudes and recedes. What we’re really seeing with our eyes in real life is three-dimensional (3D). On the other hand, if we look at a picture of it on a regular TV or monitor, we’re seeing a two-dimensional figure (2D) on one plane. We can see things three-dimensionally on a flat surface through 3D movies, 3D TVs, and 3D monitors. Movies, TVs, and monitors all implement three-dimensional images using the same principle. [ Image source: Google - translated ] When shooting, two cameras are placed side by side as though viewing with your left and right eyes. When viewed on the screen later, only the video taken on the left side is seen with your left eye, and the video taken on the right side with your right eye. This selective viewing through each eye is the representat...

“Doctor, you are a patriot!”   This is what the translator who interpreted for a Chinese patient that I recently performed surgery on said to me. The Chinese patient I operated on was a Chinese person who knew the translator beforehand. This Chinese person was concerned about a protruding mouth but received surgery to correct this protrusion after consulting with me. Surgery to correct protrusions usually involves extracting teeth that are extracted for dental correction, eliminating the gum bone corresponding to the location of the teeth, then pushing the protruding front teeth and gum bone backward and fixating in place. The official name for this surgery is anterior segmental osteotomy, commonly called protruding mouth surgery. This surgery must be performed very precisely and has three-dimensional spatial complexities, making it a difficult operation among facial bone surgeries. Not a lot of hospitals perform this operation due to the highly difficult nature. A person’s mo...

Mirror image: The image of an object reflected in a mirror, a left-right reversal of its actual form.    The face we usually see in our daily lives is not our actual face. This is because we usually look at our face reflected in a mirror. Mirrors don’t show your appearance as is but project the right side on the left and vide versa. This is called a mirror image. Then, there come moments you encounter your actual face. This is when you look at photos. Have you ever found your face unfamiliar when looking at photos of yourself? This is because you mainly see your face through a mirror, but the face you’ve become familiar with is a left-right reversed mirror image of your actual face. In theory, objects that are completely symmetrical to the left and right have the same mirror image as the true image. The more symmetrical the face, the more similar the actual face is to the face in the mirror. Conversely, the more asymmetrical the face, the greater the difference between the act...