Wonjin Beauty Medical Group (Wonjin Plastic Surgery Clinic)

What do you think is the criteria for measuring someone’s age by face? There could be various factors, however nasolabial fold, ‘smile line’ plays an important role with someone’s impression. Of course nasolabial fold becomes significant when someone, even a baby is speaking, smiling or yawning due to the muscle movement. However if you have significant nasolabial fold when you are not making any face? That is the biggest cause of older looking impression. If the nasolabial fold is severely significant, you may even look grumpy which would make your first impression worse. The causes of nasolabial fold is varied such as genetic reason, aging of skin, sudden weight loss, giving a birth or other physical changes. To prevent this, your daily life habit is very important. It is ideal to sleep in straight position without facing down or lying on side way. Also you have to have adequate amount of water as well balanced moisture and oil level preve...

Many patients get confused about filler and fat injection. Thus this question is frequently asked at our clinic as well. So today, we will have a look at some advantages and disadvantages of filler and fat injection. Fat injection (or Fat graft) is simply the relocation of the fat that we already have in our body. It is very weird that our face loses its volume when our thigh or stomach gets fatter.  The fat used for fat injection is usually extracted from the inner thigh, and usually 1 or 2 stitches are remained there. It is very important for the patient to have accurate discussion regarding the area and amount of fat injection with the surgeon, as fat injection surgery is done under deep sleep anesthesia. Areas where fat injection is possible -        Forehead, temple, front cheek, front chin, Sides of face Fat grafting is usually done on relatively wider area, and narrow areas such as nose bridge, love bands and li...