Hello, this is Dr. Yoosuk Chung of TheLINE Plastic Surgery. Over 32 years, working around the two pillars of facelift and body contouring surgery and meeting more than 100,000 cases, I have reached one conclusion. The beauty of the body is not simply a matter of 'thickness' but of 'the flow of the line.' Today's patient was 162cm and 59kg, a build that at first glance seems to have no major problem. Yet the visual heaviness she felt was considerable. The bulge on the outer upper arm when her arms were down, combined with accessory breast tissue pushing out above the underwear line, made the visual width of her upper body look far broader than her actual frame. When fat concentrates in the upper body, the eye is drawn upward, the overall proportion looks heavier, and it creates the illusion of a shorter neck or shorter legs. With this surgery I went beyond the one-dimensional approach of simply reducing the volume of the arm and put all my attention into completing a vertical aesthetic that falls smoothly and cleanly from the tip of the shoulder to the elbow.
These are the patient's pre-operative photos.
Blind-spot incision technique designed from 32 years of surgical experience The biggest reason many people hesitate over arm liposuction is fear of scarring. On the arm in particular, where the skin is thin and exposure is frequent, it is no exaggeration to say that scar management decides success or failure. Through facelift surgery I have honed the skill of hiding scars in the most discreet places, and I apply that same approach to arm contouring. In this arm + accessory breast liposuction as well, I targeted the deep natural crease inside both armpits precisely and made micro-incisions of about 5mm. This is the same stubborn attention to detail that leads us to place the incision inside the underwear line at both hips for thigh liposuction, or to hide the scars at both hips and near the tailbone for abdominal liposuction. This hidden-incision technique lets patients feel free from others' eyes from immediately after surgery through recovery, and over time the scars blend completely into the surrounding skin tissue, reaching a level of refinement where even the patient has trouble finding them. Thanks to this, even slim patients who can be especially sensitive about scars can confidently enjoy sleeveless or off-shoulder clothing. Stem cell-rich SVF liposuction that maximizes the skin's own vitality What must be guarded against most in arm surgery is the skin losing its firmness and becoming loose after the procedure. In a slim build in the mid-to-high 50kg range in particular, the fat layer is thin, so excessive suction can easily separate the skin from the muscle layer and leave it sagging. To fully address this, I applied stem cell-rich SVF liposuction technique throughout the procedure. Stem cell-rich SVF liposuction does not stop at simply extracting fat. During surgery, the effective cellular energy in the body is left densely in the tissue around the treated area rather than being destroyed, inducing a self-adhesion lifting effect in which the skin settles onto the muscle layer as firmly as a magnet, without any artificial injection from outside. This process regenerates the collagen network inside the skin densely, playing the decisive role in producing a firm, smooth texture that does not sag after surgery, as if the patient had always had a naturally slender build. This is the fruit of a philosophy built over more than 30 years of performing lift surgery and studying the mechanisms of skin elasticity.
These are the patient's photos six months after surgery.
The flawless silhouette made by six months of waiting Now that six months have passed since the arm + accessory breast liposuction, the patient's upper body line is no longer trapped in the contradictory description of 'a thin build that looks bulky.' Once the flesh below the shoulder and the unnecessary volume around the armpit that stretched the eye horizontally were cleared away, an airy proportion and the straight line of a slender arm came back dramatically, in a way that makes her 162cm height seem beside the point. Six months is the period in which the tissue regenerated through stem cell-rich SVF liposuction fully settles, and as you can see in the photos, the result is smooth and closely adhered without a hint of skin sagging. Correcting a person's disrupted proportions and releasing the real line hidden within is possible only when intuition drawn from tens of thousands of surgeries meets precise technique. Through the synergy of TheLINE's 5mm attention to detail and stem cell-rich SVF liposuction, we hope you will meet the most elegant silhouette you have imagined. Built on 32 years of trust, we are committed to the finest lines.
