Overview

One passage, widened for 27 years.

Book a consultation Board-certified plastic surgeon, Ph.D., in Seoul. Endoscopic forehead lift since 1999; endoscopic malar reduction through a single temporal incision, recorded in 2003, 2013 and 2021; revision rhinoplasty.

The surgeon who chooses which layer to enter before choosing how small the incision will be.

Endoscopic forehead lift

Four reasons an eye feels heavy

Brow descent, excess eyelid skin, ptosis and frontalis compensation are separated before any operation is proposed. When the cause is the brow, another eyelid operation will not answer it. The frontalis is preserved as a rule and adjusted only where needed.

Evidence · Endoscopic approach since 1999 · Forehead reduction, 641 cases, 2021 (co-author)

Forehead lift Endoscopic malar reduction

One incision, two dissection planes

From a single temporal incision, two planes are separated to reach the zygomatic arch and the zygomatic body without opening the mouth. Where a large movement or rigid fixation is needed, an intraoral approach may be the better tool, and that is said first.

Evidence · Plast Reconstr Surg 2003, 32 cases · Revision, 11 cases, 2013 · L-rotation, 261 cases, 2021

Malar reduction Revision rhinoplasty

Not the count, but what remains

Whether a twelfth operation is possible is decided by the tissue that is left — cartilage, skin, blood supply, previous materials, inflammation, contracture and breathing — not by the number of operations before it.

Evidence · Secondary tip plasty after PCL mesh, 2022 (co-author), published with an invited discussion

Revision rhinoplasty

Also within scope · Facial foreign body removal Old fillers, fat grafts and threads that have mixed the layers of the forehead, glabella and temple are read by an eye trained on that same temporal route: a face that has been opened before is a different problem from one opened for the first time. The same endoscope, through a scalp incision, gives a magnified view where nerves are dense.

We hold to

A small incision is a result, not a goal.

The layer is chosen before the incision.

What is left behind becomes the axis.

The limits are named first.

A revision reads the last operation.

Read our principles

One operation, recorded at three points in time.

First systematised in 2003, extended to revision in 2013, extended in indication in 2021 — the same temporal passage, three papers. Around them, five more with their own pages here: a measurement study of the Korean female face, forehead shortening, forehead reduction, secondary tip plasty and an early implant report. Two earlier papers, published in Korean society journals in 1998, are listed in the academic record. Two were published with an invited discussion. Photographs and testimonials can be copied; a paper from twenty years ago cannot. Read the research 2003 · Plast Reconstr SurgFirst author

Endoscopically assisted malarplasty: one incision and two dissection planes

Thirty-two patients, December 1999 to August 2001. The earliest systematic report of the single-temporal-incision, two-plane technique that the clinic has found in the published literature.

Lee JS, Kang S, Kim YW · 111(1):461-7

2004 · J Korean Soc Plast Reconstr SurgFirst author

Anthropometric Analysis of the Attractive and Normal Faces in Korean Female

Eight hundred young Korean women and twenty-one pageant contestants, fourteen measurements each. The difference sat in the lower third, not across the whole face.

Lee JS, Kim HK, Kim YW · 31(4):526-531 · KCI

2013 · Arch Aesthetic Plast SurgCo-author

A Preliminary Report with Anatomical Soft Cohesive Gel Implant in Augmentation Mammoplasty in Korean Women

One hundred patients over seven months, reported as preliminary. Outside the three axes of this practice, and listed because a record is given whole.

Kang YW, Min JH, Roh TS, Lee JS, Park JW, Kim YS · 19(1):19-24 · KCI

2013 · Arch Aesthetic Plast SurgCorresponding author

Shortening Foreheadplasty; Minimization of the Tension of Scalp Flap

One hundred and fifteen patients; the forehead shortened 7 to 20 mm, 14.19 mm on average, with the flap freed so that the closure need not pull.

Kang MS, Park JW, Kang YW, Lee JS · 19(1):34-40 · KCI

2013 · Arch Aesthetic Plast SurgSole author

A Revisional Malarplasty: Endoscopic Zygoma Reduction

Eleven revision cases. A face that has been operated on before is a different problem from one opened for the first time.

Lee JS · 19(2):95-100 · KCI

2021 · J Stomatol Oral Maxillofac SurgFirst author

Endoscopically assisted malarplasty: L-rotation technique

261 cases under local anaesthesia. The cortical connection that is left in place becomes the axis of rotation.

Lee JS, Kim EH, Lee SH · 122(3):229-234

2021 · Aesthetic Plast SurgCo-author

Forehead Reduction Surgery via an Anterior Hairline Pretrichial Incision in Asians: A Review of 641 Cases

641 cases; mean central excision 16.64 mm. Published with an invited discussion.

Lee SH, Oh YH, Youn S, Lee JS · 45(4):1551-1560

2022 · Aesthetic Plast SurgCo-author

Long-Term Outcomes of Secondary Nasal Tip Plasty After Degradation of a Polycaprolactone (PCL) Mesh

Fifty-six of 86 patients followed for 24 months or more after a second tip operation.

Lee SH, Cho J, Lee JS · 46(5):2358-2365

2022 · Aesthetic Plast SurgInvited discussion

Invited Discussion on: Long-Term Outcomes of Secondary Nasal Tip Plasty After Degradation of a PCL Mesh

An editor-commissioned commentary on the 2022 paper — a third party's judgement, not the clinic's own claim.

Gubisch W, Hacker S · 46(5):2366-2367

From the temple to the zygoma.

The passage began as an endoscopic forehead lift in 1999 and was carried down the same temporal route to the zygomatic arch. What was added over twenty-five years was not a new incision but a wider reach — revision in 2013, the L-rotation in 2021 — and, from that route, an eye for faces that have been operated on before. Case counts from the three malar papers are records of separate studies and are not added together. Publications

Papers — four on PubMed, four on KCI, two earlier in Korean journals

Authorship

As first or sole author

Cohort

Patients in the L-rotation series, 2021

Since 1999

Years on the same temporal passage

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
PubMed
Korean Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons
Korean Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Korea University College of Medicine
Boryung Medical Service Award, 2017

It began with a cleft lip.

In 1996, in his second year of residency, the first faces he operated on were the cleft lip and palate children of Da Lat, Vietnam. The face was learned as reconstruction before it was learned as aesthetics, and the record that followed is less a list of what was done than an account of what did not work, and what was changed because of it. The record, in full 1996Hand

Second-year resident at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital. Cleft lip and palate volunteer surgery in Da Lat, Vietnam.

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2003Tool

The distance and the curve from the temporal incision to the arch and to the body were not the same, and stock instruments could not reach both with equal accuracy. A saw was designed for the passage while the first series was still running: filed as a design in August 2002, registered in his own name in August 2003, with the name J-saw registered as a trademark that September.

KIPO design registration 0331118 · trademark 0560740 · no patent is claimed

2013Limit

A face operated on before was not the same problem. The old osteotomy line and the adhesions had to be found again, and that judgement was set down in eleven revision cases, as sole author.

Arch Aesthetic Plast Surg 19(2):95-100

1999Window

The clinic opens. Endoscopic forehead lifts begin through small incisions inside the scalp — the start of the temporal passage. The hand begins to remember where the nerves run and where the periosteum lifts.

Clinic record

2004Measure

Before deciding what to change in a face, what an ordinary face measures was established first: eight hundred young Korean women and twenty-one contestants, fourteen measurements each, as first author. The difference sat in the lower third and in the width of the jaw, not across the whole face.

First author · J Korean Soc Plast Reconstr Surg 31(4):526-531

2020Removal

A material injected elsewhere eight years earlier could not be taken out without an incision. Through small scalp incisions, subperiosteal dissection and capsulotomy it was removed under direct endoscopic view, and the temple and the cheek through a second approach.

PRS Korea 2020 · e-poster EP-308 · senior author

1999–2001Question

Below the temple lies the zygomatic arch. Could the same passage go further down? Malar reduction at the time meant opening the mouth. Thirty-two patients between December 1999 and August 2001.

2003 paper

2005Named

The temporal approach is set down in an American textbook of Asian facial surgery under his own name — Method of Jung-Soo Lee: Temporal Approach with Endoscopic Guidance — with the three inclusion criteria that decide whom it suits and, in the same paragraph, whom it does not.

Cosmetic Surgery of the Asian Face, second edition · chapter 12, p. 213

2021Reach

The L-rotation technique, 261 cases. The anterior zygoma, which the first method could not handle, came within range. What drove the extension was a limit, not a success.

First-author paper · PMID 32810601

2003Record

One incision, two dissection planes, published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. The series began with selected patients, and that is not hidden.

First-author paper · PMID 12496619

2012Quantity

A number was put on the incomplete osteotomy of the body — ninety to ninety-five per cent — so that the greenstick fracture which follows is aimed at rather than left to chance. Nineteen of twenty patients between August and October 2012; in one the cut went through completely, and the abstract says so, and says how it was held.

70th Congress of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons

NowReturn

Chief surgeon, Uvom Plastic Surgery, Seoul. Back to the forehead; to faces whose layers have been mixed by old fillers and scars; to noses operated on many times. A face opened for the first time and a face opened before are different problems.

Clinic listing

First, the layer. Then the limits.

Consultations for forehead lift, malar reduction and revision rhinoplasty begin with examination, 3D CT and, where needed, ultrasound, to establish the layer, the bone and what tissue remains before a plan is explained. Where the findings say that not operating now is the better course, that is said first. Book a consultation Fees, and booking without an agency

Education: Korea University College of Medicine — M.D.; M.S. and Ph.D., Korea University Graduate School
Hospitals: Korea University Hospital · Ewha Womans University HospitalPer the clinic listing
Teaching: Adjunct professor, Korea University · Adjunct professor, Ewha Womans UniversityPer clinic biography · appointment dates pending confirmation
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
Recognition: 2017 · 33rd Boryung Medical Service Award, main prize — for volunteer surgery abroad since 1996
2010 · Top 100 Health Professionals and 2012 · Top 100 Scientists, International Biographical Centre · 2012 · Medical Science Award of Excellence, American Biographical InstitutePer the clinic listing · the biographical-directory listings are directory selections, not peer-reviewed honours
Current: Chief Surgeon, Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic, Seoul · Board-certified plastic surgeon · Ph.D.

Chief surgeon, Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic, Seoul

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

Korean: 이정수Lee Jung-Soo in the clinic's spelling · Lee JS on PubMed
Board: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery — board-certified · Ph.D., Korea University
Operating since: 1999 — endoscopic forehead lift from the year the clinic opened
Named method: Method of Jung-Soo Lee: Temporal Approach with Endoscopic GuidanceCosmetic Surgery of the Asian Face, second edition · chapter 12, p. 213
Instrument: The J-saw, drawn for this passageKIPO design 0331118 · trademark 0560740, 2003, in his own name · no patent is claimed
Largest series: 261 cases — L-rotation malar reduction, 2021Case counts from the three malar papers are separate studies and are not added together
Volunteer surgery: Since 1996 — Vietnam, Eswatini and elsewhere