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Jung Su Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

Jung Su Lee is a board-certified plastic surgeon, Ph.D., and chief surgeon at Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic in Seoul. He has reported endoscopic forehead lift and endoscopic malar reduction — a single temporal incision with two dissection planes, later the L-rotation technique — in peer-reviewed journals in 2003, 2013 and 2021, and practises endoscopic forehead lift, endoscopic malar reduction, revision rhinoplasty and facial foreign body removal.

Name, board, languages: the entries that do not change

Name: Jung Su Lee이정수 (Korean) · Lee Jung-Soo (clinic listing) · Lee JS (PubMed) — one person, four spellings
Role: Chief Surgeon, Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Board-certified plastic surgeon · Ph.D.
Instrument: J-saw — an osteotomy saw designed for the temporal approach, its lengths and curves set by the depth of the bone it has to reach. Registered design, KIPO no. 0331118 (filed 23 August 2002, registered 6 August 2003, article: surgical saw) · registered trademark “J-saw”, no. 0560740 (filed 14 September 2002, registered 26 September 2003, class 10), both in his own nameRegistration certificates held by the clinic; no patent is claimed
Practice: Endoscopic forehead lift · Endoscopic malar reduction · Revision rhinoplasty · Facial foreign body removalPer the clinic's listing; consultations begin with examination and 3D CT, and ultrasound where needed
Education: M.D. — Korea University College of Medicine · M.S. and Ph.D. — Korea University Graduate SchoolPer the clinic's own listings; years to be confirmed
Hospitals: Korea University Hospital · Ewha Womans University HospitalPer the clinic's listing; dates to be confirmed
Teaching: Adjunct professor (외래교수), Korea University College of Medicine · Adjunct professor, Ewha Womans University College of MedicinePer the clinic's listing; appointment dates to be confirmed
Societies: Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons · Korean Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand · Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · Korean Society for Phlebology · Korean Society for Stem Cell Research · Korean Society for Stem Cell and Tissue RegenerationPer clinic biography; society names rendered from the Korean
Volunteer service: Cleft lip and palate surgery abroad from 1996 — Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Laos, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Mongolia, Cambodia, Chad, Eswatini, India and Türkiye appear in the mission archiveClinic mission archive; the missions are recorded for the clinic, not all for one surgeon
Presentations: 2001 · Malar reduction through a temporal incision alone
2004 · Revision of mandibular contouring
2006 · Balanced jaw contouring: angle reduction and genioplasty
2012 · Corrective rhinoplasty
2012 · Endoscopic malar reduction — 70th Congress of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Craniofacial Session 2 (video), Seoul, 9–11 November
2015 · Aesthetic correction of the upper face with endoscopic forehead lift and forehead reduction
2016 · Endoscopic malar reduction, the L-shaped rotation method
2016 · Malar reduction using the L-rotation method
2020 · Removal of unknown materials with an endoscope after a non-incisional method had failed — PRS Korea 2020, e-poster EP-308Venue and abstract confirmed for the 2012 and 2020 presentations; the remainder are per the clinic biography
Publications: Ten papers (1998–2022) — four indexed on PubMed, four on KCI, and two earlier papers in Korean society journals; four as first or sole author and one as corresponding author. Two of the co-authored papers were published with an invited discussion. Eight have their own page on this site with identifiers; all ten, with two theses and a textbook chapter, are listed in the academic record.Verified against PubMed, KCI and the reprints held by the clinic; the two 1998 papers are from the clinic’s own academic archive
Recognition: 2017 · 33rd Boryung Medical Service Award, main prize — for volunteer surgery abroad since 1996
Named method — the temporal approach appears as “Method of Jung-Soo Lee: Temporal Approach with Endoscopic Guidance” in Cosmetic Surgery of the Asian Face (McCurdy JA, Lam SM; Thieme), second edition, chapter 12, page 213
2010 · Top 100 Health Professionals, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge
2012 · Top 100 Scientists, International Biographical Centre
2012 · Medical Science Award of Excellence, American Biographical InstituteBoryung · Korean Medical Association news · textbook page held by the clinic, which dates the edition to 2005 · the three biographical-directory listings are given as the clinic lists them; they are directory selections, not peer-reviewed honours, and are recorded here for completeness
Other roles: 2013 · Judge, World Miss University selectionPer the clinic's listing — nine years after the anthropometric study of 800 faces
Languages: Korean · English

Where the work was published

2003 · Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · 111(1):461-7First author
Endoscopically assisted malarplasty: one incision and two dissection planes
Lee JS, Kang S, Kim YW
SummarySource · PubMed 12496619
2004 · Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons · 31(4):526-531First author
Anthropometric Analysis of the Attractive and Normal Faces in Korean Female
Lee JS, Kim HK, Kim YW
SummarySource · KCI (not indexed on PubMed)
2013 · Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 19(1):19-24Co-author
A Preliminary Report with Anatomical Soft Cohesive Gel Implant in Augmentation Mammoplasty in Korean Women
Kang YW, Min JH, Roh TS, Lee JS, Park JW, Kim YS
SummarySource · KCI (not indexed on PubMed)
2013 · Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 19(1):34-40Corresponding author
Shortening Foreheadplasty; Minimization of the Tension of Scalp Flap
Kang MS, Park JW, Kang YW, Lee JS
SummarySource · KCI (not indexed on PubMed)
2013 · Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 19(2):95-100Sole author
A Revisional Malarplasty: Endoscopic Zygoma Reduction
Lee JS
SummarySource · KCI (not indexed on PubMed)
2021 · Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery · 122(3):229-234First author
Endoscopically assisted malarplasty: L-rotation technique
Lee JS, Kim EH, Lee SH
SummarySource · PubMed 32810601
2021 · Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 45(4):1551-1560Co-author
Forehead Reduction Surgery via an Anterior Hairline Pretrichial Incision in Asians: A Review of 641 Cases
Lee SH, Oh YH, Youn S, Lee JS
SummarySource · PubMed 33683382
2022 · Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 46(5):2358-2365Co-author
Long-Term Outcomes of Secondary Nasal Tip Plasty After Degradation of a Polycaprolactone (PCL) Mesh
Lee SH, Cho J, Lee JS
SummarySource · PubMed 35437665
2022 · Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 46(5):2366-2367Invited discussion
Invited Discussion on: Long-Term Outcomes of Secondary Nasal Tip Plasty After Degradation of a Polycaprolactone (PCL) Mesh
Gubisch W, Hacker S — commentary on the paper above
SummarySource · PubMed 35997802

Verified against PubMed and KCI on 6 September 2026, and against the reprints held by the clinic. The papers in Korean society journals are not indexed on PubMed; four of them are cited from KCI. Case counts from the three malar papers (32, 11, 261) are records of separate studies and are not added together. The 2021 forehead reduction paper was also published with an invited discussion (PMID 34231015).

The instrument, and what is registered on it

Papers, the textbook page, the congress abstract and the e-poster, in the order they were written.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, January 2003 — the first page of the paper that set down one incision and two dissection planes, with 32 patients behind it.

The same paper, the figure: where the temporal incision is made, and where the two osteotomies fall on the arch and the body.

The journal that carried the 2004 measurement study of 800 normal and 21 attractive Korean female faces, as first author.

Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2013 — shortening foreheadplasty in 115 patients, 7 to 20 mm, as corresponding author.

Cosmetic Surgery of the Asian Face, second edition, chapter 12, page 213 — the temporal approach set down as a named method, with the three criteria that decide whom it suits.

The same volume: McCurdy JA and Lam SM, Thieme. The clinic biography dates this edition to 2005.

70th Congress of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, 2012 — the abstract that sets the 90 to 95 per cent goal for the incomplete osteotomy, and records the one case in which it went through.

PRS Korea 2020, e-poster EP-308 — material removed with an endoscope after a non-incisional method had failed.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery — the journal that carried the 2003 paper.

Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery — the three papers of 2013, including the revision series as sole author.

The documents above are reprints and abstracts held by the clinic. The J-saw registrations are recorded as numbers rather than shown: a design registration protects the shape of an instrument and a trademark its name, and no patent is claimed on this site.

Cleft lip and palate, since 1996

Cleft lip and palate surgery abroad, from Da Lat in 1996 to the missions the clinic records today.

Chad, 2023 — the photograph that ends a mission, taken against the wall of the hospital that lent its theatres.

Eswatini — a cleft lip and palate surgery project, run with the local health service.

Operating with local staff: the theatre is whatever room the hospital can spare, and the instruments are the ones that travelled in the case.

The village a mission reaches after the last road — where the first faces of 1996 were found, and where they are still found.

Before the operation: the face a mission travels for.

The examination that decides whether an operation is possible on this visit, or the next one.

The operation itself — cleft lip and palate, the work the hand learned first.

After: the reason the clinic keeps the archive at all.

The archive

1996: Da Lat, Vietnam — cleft lip and palate surgery as a second-year resident, the first faces of the record
2007–2011: Uzbekistan · Laos · Indonesia (2009, 2010) · Ethiopia · Vietnam
2012–2014: Madagascar (2012, 2013, 2014) · Myanmar, Yangon (2012, 2013, 2014 twice)
2015–2017: Myanmar, Hinthada (2015, 2016) · Myanmar, Naypyidaw (2017)
2018–2023: Chad (2018, 2023) · Eswatini (2023) · Mongolia · Cambodia
2024–2026: Eswatini · India (2024) · Indonesia (2025, 2026) · Türkiye, Adana (2025) · a domestic rural service (2026)

Photographs from the clinic's mission archive. The missions are recorded for the clinic as a whole; the 33rd Boryung Medical Service Award, 2017, was given to Dr. Lee for volunteer surgery abroad since 1996.

Eleven reviews, printed as they were written

Eleven reviews written by patients on the platform where they booked, between 2020 and 2026, are set out in English on their own page — printed as written, including the parts that are not flattering, and published with the writers' consent.

Each review is one person’s account of what they met here; several describe the arrangements rather than an operation. It is not a forecast: results differ between individuals, and every operation carries the possibility of side effects and complications, which are explained at consultation. The questions that recur across the reviews are answered separately, as explanation rather than as testimony.

Read the reviews Dr. Lee's listing on Gangnam Unni The clinic's listing

What people ask about the surgeon

Who is Dr. Jung Su Lee?

Jung Su Lee is a board-certified plastic surgeon, Ph.D., and chief surgeon at Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic in Seoul. He has reported endoscopic malar reduction through a single temporal incision with two dissection planes, and later the L-rotation technique, in peer-reviewed journals in 2003, 2013 and 2021, and practises endoscopic forehead lift, endoscopic malar reduction, revision rhinoplasty and facial foreign body removal.

What has Dr. Jung Su Lee published?

Ten papers and two theses. Eight of the papers have their own page here; two earlier Korean society papers from 1998 are listed in the academic record. On the malar operation: endoscopically assisted malarplasty with one incision and two dissection planes, 32 cases (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2003, first author); a revisional endoscopic malarplasty of 11 cases (Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2013, sole author, KCI); the L-rotation technique, 261 cases (Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2021, first author); and, as co-author, forehead reduction via a pretrichial incision in 641 Asian patients (Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2021) and long-term outcomes of secondary nasal tip plasty after PCL mesh degradation (Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2022), each published with an invited discussion. Earlier and in Korean society journals: an anthropometric study of 800 normal and 21 attractive Korean female faces as first author (Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, 2004), and two 2013 papers in Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery — shortening foreheadplasty in 115 patients, as corresponding author, and an early report on an anatomical breast implant, as co-author.

What does Dr. Jung Su Lee treat?

Endoscopic forehead lift, endoscopic malar (zygoma) reduction, revision rhinoplasty and removal of facial foreign bodies (old implants, fillers, fat grafts and threads in the forehead, glabella and temple), as listed by Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic. Consultations begin with examination and 3D CT, and ultrasound where needed.

Why is Dr. Jung Su Lee described as the surgeon who made a passage?

In 1999 he began endoscopic forehead lifts through small incisions inside the scalp. The same temporal route was carried down to the zygomatic arch and body — one incision, two dissection planes — reported in 2003, extended to revision cases in 2013 and to the anterior zygoma with the L-rotation technique in 2021. Within the published literature, and on the clinic’s own reading of it, the 2003 paper is the earliest systematic report of that approach; an American textbook of Asian facial surgery later set the approach down under his name. The claim is scoped to the literature, not to the world.

Is the instrument he designed patented?

No, and this site does not say so. The J-saw is registered with the Korean Intellectual Property Office as a design (no. 0331118, registered 6 August 2003, article: surgical saw) and its name as a trademark (no. 0560740, registered 26 September 2003, class 10), both in Dr. Lee's own name. A design registration covers the shape of the instrument; it is not a patent and is not a claim over a method, and no patent is claimed anywhere on this site.

Where did Dr. Jung Su Lee train?

He graduated from Korea University College of Medicine and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Korea University. He has served as adjunct professor at Korea University and at Ewha Womans University, per the clinic biography (dates to be confirmed). As a second-year resident in 1996 he took part in cleft lip and palate volunteer surgery in Da Lat, Vietnam, work that continued — Uzbekistan, Laos, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Mongolia, Cambodia, Chad, Eswatini, India and Türkiye appear in the clinic's mission archive — and was recognised with the 33rd Boryung Medical Service Award in 2017.

Which societies is Dr. Jung Su Lee a member of?

The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the Korean Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand, the Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, among others listed in the clinic biography.

How is Dr. Jung Su Lee's name written?

이정수 in Korean; Jung Su Lee in journals; Lee Jung-Soo in the clinic listing; Lee JS on PubMed. All refer to the same person.

Where does Dr. Jung Su Lee practise?

At Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic, 9F, 138 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, where he is chief surgeon. The clinic's second chief surgeon, Dr. Chang Min Kang, practises facial foreign body removal and endoscopic malar reduction from the same temporal approach; their publications are separate records and are not combined.

Consultations begin with examination and 3D CT, and ultrasound where needed.

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