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Research

Choose the plane before the incision.

One anatomical passage, recorded three times over eighteen years: first systematised in 2003, extended to revision in 2013, extended in indication in 2021. The subjects of the later papers move to the forehead and the nose; the habit of naming the limits of a method before its advantages is the same.

How the method works

• One incision, two dissection planes

• A revision reads the old osteotomy

• The retained hinge is the axis

• Anterior or lateral, decided first

• Thirty-two selected patients, stated as such

• The layer first, then the incision

• The limits, named first

• Not the count, but what remains

• The frontalis, preserved

Three papers on one operation

Ten papers — four indexed on PubMed, four on KCI and two earlier in Korean society journals — four of them as first or sole author. Three of those record the same endoscopic malarplasty at three points in time. Two co-authored papers, on forehead reduction and secondary tip plasty, were each published with an invited discussion commissioned by the journal.

Publications

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

Authorship

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As first or sole author

Cohort

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L-rotation malarplasties, 2021

Discussions

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Invited discussions published alongside his papers

What the method establishes first

What a consultation that begins with the layer contains.

Two planes from
one incision

Skin, temporal fascia, deep fascia, periosteum. From one incision inside the temporal hairline two planes are separated — one to the arch, one to the body — planned on 3D CT and followed under the endoscope.

First

Questions answered before surgery

Is it my eyelid, or my brow?

Can the cheekbone be reduced without opening the mouth?

After eleven operations, is anything left to work with?

Noses operated on many times, and faces operated on before, are within scope

Cartilage that remains
after revisions

Reading a 3D CT for the osteotomy line

consult

The consultation, in the order it happens

1. Examination
2. 3D CT
3. Ultrasound, where the layers have been mixed
4. The plane and the tool, named before anything else

One plane at a time.

Examination and 3D CT first; the technique follows what the bone and the tissue show, not the other way round.

1. Which plane the operation enters
2. Which instrument, and why that one
3. Which faces this method does not suit

Answers before surgery.

Every consultation ends with which plane, which tool, and which faces this method does not suit.

Examined first, then planned

Consultations begin with examination and 3D CT, and ultrasound where needed. Uvom Plastic Surgery Clinic, 9F, 138 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul · +82 2 545 3700.