Maintaining a Youthful Appearance for a Long Time… Rising Attention to Anti-Aging Surgeries and Procedures
By In-Soo Kirk, Chief Director of ONUL Plastic Surgery
Published: 2024.07.18 09:36

Nowadays, it’s not unusual to see actors who were leading stars 30 years ago still playing youthful roles in their 50s. Twenty years ago, when I became a plastic surgery specialist, most cosmetic surgeries and procedures aimed at changing one’s appearance. However, the recent trend focuses more on maintaining or restoring one’s youthful look.

Reliable and Long-Lasting Anti-Aging Surgeries

In my opinion, a good anti-aging surgery is one that preserves a natural youthful appearance for as long as possible. Facial anti-aging surgeries mainly include lifting surgeries and eyelid surgeries. Lifting surgeries are categorized into forehead lift, midface lift, lower face lift, and neck lift. Forehead lifts not only smooth forehead wrinkles but also naturally correct drooping eyelids.

Midface lifts target the cheekbones and nasolabial folds, while lower face and neck lifts address jawline, perioral area, and sagging or wrinkles of the neck. For long-lasting effects, the surgeon must properly lift the skin layer as well as the deeper muscles, fascia, and even the deepest periosteum layer, repositioning soft tissues effectively. Merely pulling the skin can result in an unnatural look and quick recurrence of sagging, so surgery should be performed by a skilled specialist.

Eyelid surgery has evolved beyond simply cutting drooping skin of the upper and lower eyelids (blepharoplasty) to include repositioning fat or tissue and tightening without skin excision for a more natural result.

Quick Recovery Benefits with Simple Anti-Aging Procedures

Anti-aging procedures can be broadly divided into injections, laser treatments, and thread lifting.

Botox injections temporarily paralyze muscles to reduce wrinkles. Fillers — which literally “fill” — are medical substances injected into areas lacking volume, such as nasolabial folds, cheeks, or cheekbones, to restore fullness. Skin boosters are injected into superficial skin layers to promote regeneration and improve skin texture and tone.

Laser treatments deliver energy to specific depths within tissues to destroy unwanted parts or stimulate regeneration, improving pigmentation or skin texture in shallow layers, or inducing lifting through tissue regeneration in deeper fascia layers.

Thread lifting involves inserting biocompatible threads under the skin to physically lift sagging tissues. These procedures have the advantage of no external wounds and rapid recovery, although their effects typically last for a shorter time than surgery.

Among various anti-aging surgeries and procedures, choosing the treatment that best suits the individual can help slow the effects of aging healthily and effectively. Korean cosmetic and plastic surgery techniques are world-class and are available at much more affordable costs compared to other countries. For those wishing to maintain their youthfulness longer, I encourage you to consider anti-aging surgeries and procedures.

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