Girin Plastic Surgery

Today's Topic - The aiming for Lateral Epicanthoplasty There are TWO aiming for lateral epicanthoplasty procedure which to make wide and lowering of lateral canthus . Here is the example; Generally, many patient want to gets the procedures to make their eyes wider than before. Lateral epicanthoplasty is really good procedure to make bigger eyes. Second, patients who have high angle of lateral canthus are also good candidate for the procedure. Through the lateral epicanthoplasty, lateral canthus angle would be lower and it caused 'softer' and feminine looking.  Before choosing the procedure, meet a surgeon and get advice the exact procedure which is suitable for patient. 

Facial contouring - Genioplasty (chin surgery) Before and After Chin Surgery of Girin Plastic Surgery creates a sleek V-Line. Girin Chin Surgery can create a sleek V-Line and fix the lower face with autologous bone graft rather than screw, and it requires a short recovery period.

Eyeplasty - Transconjunctival lower Blepharoplasty (TCB) Before and After Transconjuctival lower Blepharoplasty allows removal of the excess fat of the lower eyelid. This is done by making the incision inside the eyelid which leaves no visible external scars.

Today's Topic - AccuLift & Accu-Sculpt The AccuLift is a non-surgical procedure which Accu-Sculpt laser liquefy fat in the lower face and neck (double chin) while tightening skin and tissue to smooth out lower face lines and wrinkles. After the procedure, patient would get much younger appearance.  S urgery period is less than 60 min and required short recovery period rather than other lift procedures.

Facial Contouring - Jaw Reduction and Zygoma Reduction 3DCT Before and After  The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. 3D Zygoma Reduction – All prominent zygoma – With full L-shape osteotomy on anterior zygoma. It reduces the volume of whole zygoma. Since the lower part of the zygoma supports the zygoma body, it prevents the undesired displacement of the zygoma body (Fixation after full osteotomy) Safe Quick Zygoma Reduction – only lateral prominent zygoma type / With partial L-shape osteotomy on the anterior zygoma. It reduces zygoma. Since the possibility of displacement of the zygoma body is 0%, it could reduce the zygoma in the stabilized fashion (Zygoma with favorable union after surgery) (Partial osteotomy/ Full osteotomy)

Question -  How to correct protruded lip without bone osteotomy? Answer - There are various way to correct protruded lip reduction such as 2 jaws, orthodontics and etc. But those procedures require huge amount of money, long recovery period, and high-risk. Also, those procedures are not suitable to patient who does not have any problem with function. So, How reduce the protruded lip without bone surgery!? The answer is 'Silicone Implant' on your chin. The procedure no requires bone surgery, visible scarring, and recovery period is faster. Silicone located on the chin with screw fixation. Through oral incision (1 to 2cm), there is no visible scar after operation. Through chin augmentation with silicone implant would make better appearance for protruded lip.

Facial Contouring - Jaw Reduction and Zygoma Reduction 3DCT Before and After  The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. 3D Zygoma Reduction – All prominent zygoma – With full L-shape osteotomy on anterior zygoma. It reduces the volume of whole zygoma. Since the lower part of the zygoma supports the zygoma body, it prevents the undesired displacement of the zygoma body (Fixation after full osteotomy) Safe Quick Zygoma Reduction – only lateral prominent zygoma type / With partial L-shape osteotomy on the anterior zygoma. It reduces zygoma. Since the possibility of displacement of the zygoma body is 0%, it could reduce the zygoma in the stabilized fashion (Zygoma with favorable union after surgery) (Partial osteotomy/ Full osteotomy)

Today's Topic - Recovery period of Lateral Epicanthoplasty Lateral Epicanthoplasty takes more time rather than other eyeplasty such as double eyelids surgery. Because, It needs to be stitch out two times post-operative 5 days and 8 days. And the shape of lateral canthus would be changed through 6 months. During recovery period redness, conjunctival edema and lateral canthus could be shown 'droopy'.But those are just temporary symptoms, which get better as times go by. After 5 months, there is no visible scarring, no redness, no conjunctival edama with wide & defined eye shape.  Since the lateral epicanthoplasty required long recovery period rather than other eyeplasty, many patients worry about recovery and result.  However as it mentioned above, patients need to take a time for recovery for 6 months at least.  

Facial Contouring - Jaw Reduction and Zygoma Reduction 3DCT Before and After  The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. 3D Zygoma Reduction – All prominent zygoma – With full L-shape osteotomy on anterior zygoma. It reduces the volume of whole zygoma. Since the lower part of the zygoma supports the zygoma body, it prevents the undesired displacement of the zygoma body (Fixation after full osteotomy) Safe Quick Zygoma Reduction – only lateral prominent zygoma type / With partial L-shape osteotomy on the anterior zygoma. It reduces zygoma. Since the possibility of displacement of the zygoma body is 0%, it could reduce the zygoma in the stabilized fashion (Zygoma with favorable union after surgery) (Partial osteotomy/ Full osteotomy)

Today's Topic - Girin New V-Line vs General V-Line Many patients ask to us about the difference of New V-Line with other existing V-Line procedures.  What is the difference? Here is the answer!  1. General V-Line (Mandible reduction + Extra Chin plasty [T-osteotomy, Sandwich osteotomy and etc])  * Secondary angle (red circles) after T-Osteotomy procedure   Chinplasty is suitable for patients who have long, asymmetry,and recede chin. Other is no need to get the extra procedures  As you can see the above picture, patient has to get several procedures (Jaw reduction + chinplasty) to get slim facial line. Those procedures cause excessive damage on mandible bone and soft tissues, so recovery period is slow with pain.  2. Girin New V-Line (Whole mandible reduction including chin-tip) * After New V-Line Revision  New V-Line is the surgical procedure to correct both wide jaw and chin at once by long curve osteotectom...

Facial Contouring - Jaw Reduction and Zygoma Reduction 3DCT Before and After  The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. 3D Zygoma Reduction – All prominent zygoma – With full L-shape osteotomy on anterior zygoma. It reduces the volume of whole zygoma. Since the lower part of the zygoma supports the zygoma body, it prevents the undesired displacement of the zygoma body (Fixation after full osteotomy) Safe Quick Zygoma Reduction – only lateral prominent zygoma type / With partial L-shape osteotomy on the anterior zygoma. It reduces zygoma. Since the possibility of displacement of the zygoma body is 0%, it could reduce the zygoma in the stabilized fashion (Zygoma with favorable union after surgery) (Partial osteotomy/ Full osteotomy)

Today's Topic - What is Ptosis correction? Ptosis is defined as drooping of the upper eyelid(s). And this is caused sleepy, tired appearance and reduces vision. It has problem both visually and functionally. Ptisos correction perform to repair ptosis surgical method which tightening the levator muscle to elevate the eyelid by Dr.Song, specialized in eyeplasty. After the surgery, patient would get more defined eyes.

Eyeplasty - NIP (Non-Incisional double eyelids surgery with Ptosis correction) The NIP is the surgery that no needs incision, scar, swelling and stitch. And It could be corrected any types of eye lid. Short surgery period with out stitch makes time to take short recovery period.

Girin Plastic Surgery Clinic Review Surgery - New V-Line, Zygoma Reduction & Rhinoplasty & Fat Graft The patient, name is Ms.Yoon undergo New V-Line, Zygoma Reduction, Rhinoplasty and Fat graft in Girin Plastic Surgery. Her zygoma and mandible bone were wide & slight pug nose with hollow face. The patient really want to improved her face shape looks more feminine. Before Operation During final consultation with Dr.Lee, she worried about general anesthesia and side-effects. But we let her know we have In-house anesthetist who take care of patient during operation and our surgical procedures has been advanced to prevent any risk of side-effects. After we reassure her and start the operation. Post-Operative 3 Days Swelling and bruising gets worse within 3 days after surgery. She takes hard time for a while, hard to breath, pain and swelling. Post-Operative 5 Days Swelling and bruising start goes down rapidly from 5 days, and stitch...

Question - There are redness and bleeding occurred on surgical area after Lateral Epicanthoplasty,. Are they side effects or infection? * Side effect case (Scarring) * Temporally symptoms (Redness and Conjunctival swelling) Answer - NO, those symptoms are not side effect or infection either. Lateral Epicanthoplasty is incision method and conjunctiva and soft tissue around eyes would be damaged during operation. For this reason, those symptoms would be appeared temporally and disappear as times passed. Then, what is the side effects (or infection)?   Major symptoms are scarring and eyes deformation. To prevent risk of side effect, patients have to with skillful surgeon.

Facial Contouring - New V-Line Before and After video The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. The existing square jaw reduction surgery could not make any dramatic result on a front face so a patient has to have a chin surgery (T-shape osteotomy) to get a V-Line. However, Girin Jaw Reduction can create the same effect as a chin surgery and moreover, it does not require of any screws, in turn reducing a tissue damage and improving a recovery period.   Thus, there would be no screws shown in X-ray as well. Unless T-shape osteotomy is necessary, long curve osteotomy is the most efficient.

Today's Topic - Zygoma Reduction and Microplate screw Many patients visit us and have consultation with doctor about Zygoma reduction. At that time, major concerns of patient is that skin sagging occurred after operation. Because In Girin Plastic Surgery,fix an microplate screw on the anterior zygoma only. Microplate screw fixation cannot prevent skin sagging. Skin sagging is caused by various reason such as zygoma nonunion, excessive zygoma or soft tissue dissection, lack of skin elastic and etc. Why we do not need to fix screw on lateral zygoma? First, we do not make separate zygoma body with soft tissue. That mean is there is no damage on lateral soft tissue include skin, so recovery is fast and reduce zygoma bone nonunion. Second, we choose osteotomy method as L-shape. L-shape oesteotomy prevents bone sagging. There is no reason to fix extra screw bootlessly.

Facial Contouring - New V-Line Before and After video The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. The existing square jaw reduction surgery could not make any dramatic result on a front face so a patient has to have a chin surgery (T-shape osteotomy) to get a V-Line. However, Girin Jaw Reduction can create the same effect as a chin surgery and moreover, it does not require of any screws, in turn reducing a tissue damage and improving a recovery period.   Thus, there would be no screws shown in X-ray as well. Unless T-shape osteotomy is necessary, long curve osteotomy is the most efficient.

Today's Topic - Revision Facial Contouring The 3DCT photo is shown revision facial contouring. The patient had underwent T-Osteotomy in other clinic and suffered from secondary angle.  During consultation, the patient asked to Dr.Lee to correct secondary angle (Red dot point on left pic) and remove microplate screw on chin (Red circle on left pic).  Dr.Lee corrected these issues through New V-Line with Long Curve Osteotomy, and the patient satisfied with the result after operation.

New V-Line - 3DCT Before & After video The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. The existing square jaw reduction surgery could not make any dramatic result on a front face so a patient has to have a chin surgery (T-shape osteotomy) to get a V-Line. However, Girin Jaw Reduction can create the same effect as a chin surgery and moreover, it does not require of any screws, in turn reducing a tissue damage and improving a recovery period. Thus, there would be no screws shown in X-ray as well. Unless T-shape osteotomy is necessary, long curve osteotomy is the most efficient.

Question -   I do not have any issue on my nasal bridge, but I want to get better of my nose appearance.  What should I do? Answer -  Generally, patients undergo Rhinoplasty with Nasal bridge augmentation & Nasal tip augmentation.   However, patient who do not have any issue on nasal bridge such as nasal hump, deviated nasal bone, and wide nasal bone, does not need to choose nasal bridge augmentation. Through nasal tip augmentation only, nose shape and appearance would be much improved.

New V-Line - 3DCT Before & After video The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. The existing square jaw reduction surgery could not make any dramatic result on a front face so a patient has to have a chin surgery (T-shape osteotomy) to get a V-Line. However, Girin Jaw Reduction can create the same effect as a chin surgery and moreover, it does not require of any screws, in turn reducing a tissue damage and improving a recovery period. Thus, there would be no screws shown in X-ray as well. Unless T-shape osteotomy is necessary, long curve osteotomy is the most efficient.

New V-Line - 3DCT Before & After video The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. The existing square jaw reduction surgery could not make any dramatic result on a front face so a patient has to have a chin surgery (T-shape osteotomy) to get a V-Line. However, Girin Jaw Reduction can create the same effect as a chin surgery and moreover, it does not require of any screws, in turn reducing a tissue damage and improving a recovery period. Thus, there would be no screws shown in X-ray as well. Unless T-shape osteotomy is necessary, long curve osteotomy is the most efficient.

Question - I want to reduce my chin. Which procedure is suitable to me? T-Osteotomy or Long curve osteotomy? Answer - If you want to only REDUCE chin, we recommend Long curver osteotomy method. Because, both procedures have different perform. T-Osteotomy would be performed for patient with long chin, short chin, and slight lantern jaw, but other chin types are not suitable for the procedure. Also the procedure is possible to do anterior sliding genioplasty or posterior sliding genioplasty.   However If you want to only reduce chin width and length, T-Osteotomy is not appropriate method. Long curve osteotomy procedure is possible to reduce chin width and length in one piece with no nerve damage. Since the procedure is simple and less osteotomy method rather than T-Osteotomy, recovery period is much short and fast.

New V-Line - 3DCT Before & After video The new V-Line is the most advanced V-Line surgery. Since it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. The existing square jaw reduction surgery could not make any dramatic result on a front face so a patient has to have a chin surgery (T-shape osteotomy) to get a V-Line. However, Girin Jaw Reduction can create the same effect as a chin surgery and moreover, it does not require of any screws, in turn reducing a tissue damage and improving a recovery period. Thus, there would be no screws shown in X-ray as well. Unless T-shape osteotomy is necessary, long curve osteotomy is the most efficient.

Question - Should I have to choose Incisional double eyelids surgery for revision? Answer - No, you do not need to choose incision method. Although you underwent incision double eyelids surgery before, there is no reason you choose same method again. If patient has any problem with eyes function, saggy skin, scar, a lot of soft tissue on upper eyelids and etc, then it is needed incision method. However, If you do not have any problem such as mentioned above, general revision cases could be corrected by Non-Incision method.

Girin Plastic Surgery - Paranasal Augmentation Before and After Video The paranasal augmentation is a cosmetic surgery to inflate the depressed areas above the upper jaw, or maxilla, from the nostrils to the corners of the mouth. By adding volume to these areas, the nasolabial folds are straightened and a younger appearance is achieved.  

Girin Plastic Surgery - Lateral Epicanthoplasty Before and After Video  Lateral epicanthoplasty, the procedure focuses on the outer corner of the eye, reshaping lateral epicanthus. The surgery could lengthen both the length and height of the eyes to create beautiful eye line shape.

Girin Question & Answer - What is the Ptosis correction? Answer -   If you are looking for cosmetics and want to correct eyelids shape such as 'sleepy' looking or asymmetry eyelids, Ptosis correction is suitable! Ptosis correction is surgical procedure and involves tightening the levator muscle to elevate the eyelid to make eyes more defined. Generally, It is recommended with non-incisional method. Thus, the recovery period is faster as well. Dr.Song, specialist in Eyeplasty will make your eyes more beautiful!