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Beauty hidden within all along

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I am a plastic surgeon. There are quite diverse areas in the field of plastic surgery. Among these, I mainly specialize in surgery of facial bones. Facial bone surgery can be divided broadly into two categories. One being the outer facial line, in other words, facial contouring surgery which changes the contour, and the other being double jaw (jaw revision) surgery which changes the placement of the upper and lower jaw including the teeth. The original facial bones are the components used in either surgery. In other words, the facial bone surgeries I perform basically do not involve using artificial implants.    For facial bone surgery, the original facial bones are ideally relocated or trimmed by partially cutting and shaving. What’s amusing is that amazing beauty can be created just by operating on the original facial bones without any artificial implants. It’s moments that I see beauty unveiling little by little before my eyes as I’m performing surgery that bring me great j...

Natural Beauty

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  “I only want slight surgery so it looks natural!” “I want the most surgery possible so it looks obvious!” These are the comments I hear most when consulting outpatients regarding plastic surgery or when consulting just before surgery.   Most people basically think that being ‘natural’ involves changing a little, and ‘obvious’ means changing considerably.   But ‘natural’ doesn’t actually mean changing a little, it means you can’t tell surgery was performed and the change isn’t awkward looking. You can still end up looking natural even after a substantial amount of surgery. It will look natural even if you’ve transformed a lot if the changes aren’t awkward and it still seems like you were originally born that way.   On the other hand, ‘obvious’ means that you can tell surgery was done. Regardless of the amount of change, it will look like you had work done if you end up looking awkward and it doesn’t seem like you were naturally born like that way. It ...