Hello, this is Jaeho Cho, Chief Director of TheLINE Plastic Surgery.
What I guard against most when performing body contouring surgery is one-size-fits-all fat extraction. Especially for patients like the one I introduce today, at 161cm and 55kg, who objectively belong to a lean body type, what decides the success of the surgery is not extracting a large amount of fat but where to leave and where to shave in order to create visually golden proportions. The patient has a slender frame overall, but she named as her biggest concern the fact that fat accumulated locally at the front of the abdomen and at the love handles behind the waist had erased the curve of her upper body and made her waist look straight-sided. The slimmer the body type, the more easily a very slight imbalance in suction leads to irregularities or adhesions on the skin surface. Drawing on the precise sense built up over 31 years and more than 50,000 cases, I performed abdomen + love handle liposuction, refining the volume of the entire abdomen while drawing the waistline deeply inward. To preserve a smooth skin texture, I applied the stem cell-rich SVF liposuction method throughout the procedure.
These are the patient's pre-operative photos.
The aesthetics of the 5mm hidden incision, designed into the blind spots of scarring For slim patients who enjoy wearing clothing that shows more skin, scarring is the single biggest factor that makes them hesitate over surgery. To relieve that anxiety, I target only blind spots where a scar cannot be perceived from the outside. In this abdomen + love handle surgery as well, I did not touch the inside of the navel at all, placing micro-incisions only at positions completely concealed inside the underwear line, at both hip areas and near the tailbone. Just as scars are hidden in the deep crease inside the armpit in arm liposuction, or the underwear line at both hips is used in thigh liposuction, the abdomen too was designed precisely so that no trace shows during everyday movement or when wearing a swimsuit. Traces of about 5mm blend completely with the surrounding skin tone over time, achieving a finish so complete that even the patient has trouble finding them. Details like this determine the everyday freedom a patient will feel after surgery. Stem cell-rich SVF liposuction, which addresses firmness and contour at once A lean body in the 55kg range has a thin fat layer, carrying a high risk that the skin will float over the muscle layer or sag after surgery. To prevent this, the stem cell-rich SVF liposuction applied here means more than a technique for simply extracting fat. When the body's viable cellular energy is preserved densely within the tissue rather than destroyed during surgery, a self-adhesion lifting effect can be obtained in which the skin settles tightly onto the abdominal wall without any artificial injection from outside. This process densely regenerates the collagen mesh within the skin, completing a smooth texture in which the skin does not go slack after surgery but looks as though it had always been firm. The self-regenerating energy of stem cell-rich SVF liposuction supports recovery of skin elasticity and plays a decisive role in keeping the contour solid rather than letting it collapse over time. Through this method, which concentrates the know-how I have built over more than 30 years of studying body contours, I maximized the delicate mood characteristic of a slim body type.
These are the patient's photos six months after surgery.
A flawless S-line proven by six months of stabilization Six months on from abdomen + love handle liposuction, the patient's silhouette has become far more refined and three-dimensional than before. Once the love handles at the flanks and lower back that scattered the eye horizontally were cleanly resolved, the latent curvature of her 161cm frame came through dramatically. With the lifting effect of the stem cell-rich SVF liposuction now stabilized in particular, the abdominal skin adheres smoothly, as though conditioned through exercise, and shows a flawless result. What matters more than a change in weight is the order of the contour reflected in the mirror. Anyone can simply take fat away, but sculpting a person's proportions while also accounting for the skin's own regenerative capacity is possible only for an experienced surgeon. Through TheLINE's precise 5mm detail and stem cell-rich SVF liposuction technology, I hope you too will meet the most elegant and slim silhouette you have imagined. With 31 years of sincerity, I will find your hidden real contour.
