"I Have a Cursed Face": Double Jaw Surgery for a Port-Wine Stain | Faceline Plastic Surgery Seoul
"I have a cursed face." That is how a woman introduced herself on the Korean makeover show "Let Me In" (Season 4, Episode 10, Story On, aired July 31, 2014). Born with a port-wine stain on the right side of her face, she had spent 36 years keeping that side hidden. In short: at Faceline Plastic Surgery Clinic and Faceline Dental Clinic in Seoul, we treated her facial asymmetry and protruding mouth with babyface double jaw (two-jaw) surgery, with no teeth extracted, together with facial contouring and other procedures. Here is her story, and how we planned the surgery. The first time she noticed She was a child when people began to say she looked strange. Some said she would spread a disease. Some threw stones. "That was the first time I realized I looked different," she told the show. A double life, in makeup For her, the "double life" was makeup. To step outside, she covered the stain with thick makeup, so the face the world saw and the fa...