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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...

Traceless: Unable to detect without a trace as though nothing was enhanced or altered. There are two things people want to get out of surgery. One is to see significant results from surgery and the other is that no one knows they’ve ever had surgery albeit substantial results. It is difficult to hide the fact one has had surgery done for the most common surgeries like double eyelid surgery or nose raising surgery. This is because these are highly visible areas, and the difference is noticeable. Being the most common, we encounter these cases of surgery the most. We often see self-proclaimed plastic surgery experts around us who claim to be able to uncannily detect whether someone has had surgery or not. However, it’s another story for the field of facial contouring and orthognathic surgery that I usually perform. Facial contouring and orthognathic surgery are the representative facial bone surgeries. Facial contouring surgery changes the contour of the face, and generally includes chee...