Those who raise their eyebrows
Patients who raise their eyebrows excessively every time they open their eyes, creating forehead wrinkles.
TheLINE
Forehead Lift
Forehead Reduction
Refresh your forehead, open up sagging eyes
The secret to a fresh and youthful face
Endotine Forehead Lift
A refreshed forehead and defined eyes,
Forehead Lift
This anti-aging procedure uses Endotine implants to widen the distance between the eyes and eyebrows and to improve forehead wrinkles, for a fresher and more open expression.
Forehead Lift
Forehead lift, raising the forehead and the eyes together
TheLINE forehead lift is an anti-aging surgery that widens the distance between the eyes and eyebrows with Endotine implants and smooths out forehead wrinkles.
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Forehead
Wrinkles · Size
A wrinkled forehead becomes smoother, and a forehead that looked narrow becomes more open. Forehead lift and forehead reduction address both the wrinkles and the size of the forehead.
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Eyes
Wrinkles · Sagging
When the forehead and eyebrows are raised, the weight pressing on the upper eyelids is reduced. The eyes look larger without an eyelid incision, and wrinkles and sagging around the eyes are also improved.
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Eyebrows
Sagging
Sagging eyebrows are raised back into place, widening the space between the eyes and eyebrows. It helps patients break the habit of straining the forehead every time they open their eyes.
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Overall impression
No eyelid surgery
Without touching the eyes directly, the forehead lift alone aims for both larger-looking eyes and a better overall impression. A heavy, closed-off look opens up.
Recommendation Target
Forehead lift is recommended for these patients
For a narrow eye-brow gap
Patients whose narrow space between the eyes and eyebrows creates a heavy, tired look.
Those who want larger eyes
Patients who want naturally larger-looking eyes without double eyelid surgery.
For sagging eyes and brows
Patients with sagging around the eyes and eyebrows who also want to address forehead wrinkles.
For forehead wrinkles
Patients with set horizontal forehead lines that stand out even more with every facial expression.
Those who want a fresher look
Patients who want to widen the gap between the eyes and eyebrows for a fresher, more open expression.
Surgery Information
How long does a forehead lift take, and how long is recovery?
Operation time varies with the incision method.
- 1 Duration Mini 1 hr 30 min Coronal 3-4 hrs
- 2 Anesthesia Sedation
- 3 Incision site Inside the scalp Micro-incision
- 4 Stay Same day
- 5 Follow-up 1-2 checks
- 6 Recovery 3 days to 1 week
How Forehead Lift Works
How is forehead lift surgery performed?
TheLINE forehead lift proceeds in three steps: incision, dissection, and customized lifting.
SCALP MICRO INCISION
Micro-incision in the scalp
A fine incision is made inside the scalp where it stays hidden by the hair. The site is chosen so that the incision line does not show from the outside.
DISSECTION
Dissection
The tissue holding the forehead and eyebrows is dissected layer by layer. The extent of the dissection is exactly the extent that can be lifted.
CUSTOM LIFTING
Customized lifting
The pulling direction and extent are set separately for every tissue layer for a customized lift, then fixed with Endotine implants.
Endotine Implant
Do Endotine implants stay in the body?
TheLINE uses biocompatible soft tissue fixation implants whose safety has been verified by the FDA and the KFDA.
※ The four protrusions of the implant anchor the skin to create the lift. An average of 2 to 4 implants are fixed in the forehead, and they are naturally absorbed within 6 months to 1 year, which keeps the burden of foreign body sensation and scarring low.
Mini vs Coronal Incision
Mini forehead lift and standard forehead lift: what differs?
The incision method and the number of implants change with tissue thickness and the degree of brow ptosis.
Mini forehead lift
A 3-4 cm vertical or horizontal incision is made outside the hairline, and an average of 2 implants are fixed. This is chosen when the tissue is not thick and brow ptosis is mild.
Coronal forehead lift
The incision location is determined by hairline height, and an average of 2 to 4 implants are fixed. This is chosen when the tissue is very thick and sagging is severe.
Eye & Eyebrow Distance
The distance between the eyes and eyebrows shapes the look
With the same eyes, a different distance to the eyebrows creates a different impression.
Deep-set
The eyes are deep-set, so the distance between the eyes and eyebrows is narrow. Even with a narrow gap, the deep-set eyes keep the look from appearing heavy.
Shallow-set
The eyes are shallow-set, so a wider distance between the eyes and eyebrows looks fresher. That gap is exactly what a forehead lift targets.
Eyes that looked heavy
Eyes that somehow look dull even though a natural double eyelid is already there. It is because the upper eyelid and the eyebrow are covering the eye.
More defined eyes
Once the forehead and eyebrows return to their place, the weight covering the eyes is reduced. A forehead lift helps turn a heavy-looking eye into a more defined one.
Before & After 3 Weeks
How do the eyes change 3 weeks after a forehead lift?
This change came from the forehead lift alone, with no eye incision.
Before
Even with a double eyelid, the upper eyelid and eyebrow covered the eye, leaving a heavy and closed-off impression.
After 3 Weeks
As the distance between the eyes and eyebrows widened, the eyes became more defined and the expression noticeably more relaxed.
Forehead Before & After
A wrinkled forehead and a narrow forehead both change
Before and 3 weeks after forehead lift and forehead reduction surgery, side by side.
CASE A · Smoothing out a wrinkled forehead
CASE B · Opening up a narrow forehead
※ Results before and after surgery may vary from person to person.
Eye Improvement Cases
Four cases where the eyes changed without double eyelid surgery
No eye incision and no ptosis correction - these changes came from the forehead lift.
CASE 1 · Monolid to double eyelid - making a hidden double eyelid visible
CASE 2 · Improving eye shape without fat removal
CASE 3 · Eye surgery with a mini forehead lift - correcting sausage-like swollen eyelids
CASE 4 · Eye surgery with a mini forehead lift - refreshed eyes without revision surgery
※ Unexpected side effects such as inflammation, bleeding, and infection may occur. The degree may vary from person to person, so careful attention is required.
Surgeon Experience
Why does the surgeon's expertise matter in a forehead lift?
Even in the same surgery, the result changes with how the dissection range and the lifting direction are set.
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Anatomical knowledge
To come close to the desired result, the surgery should be performed by a surgeon who has operated on the eyes, the nose, facial contours, and incisional lifting alike. The forehead moves as one piece with the eyes and eyebrows.
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Surgical experience
A surgeon with extensive dissection experience plans the required dissection range in advance and operates precisely. If the dissection range is set wrong, the tissue will not lift as much as intended.
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The goal of lifting
A single surgery can be customized to lift 1 to 5 targeted areas. Whether to raise only the forehead, or the eyebrows and the eye area as well, is decided in advance.
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Experience built since 2007
Since its expanded opening in 2007, TheLINE Plastic Surgery has accumulated 80,000 body cases and 100,000 facial cases over 19 years.
Academic Activity
Dr. Yoosuk Chung, plastic surgeon with 32 years of experience
He has lectured to medical professionals in many countries, sharing his lifting techniques.
Vietnam lecture
He took part as a speaker in a technology transfer lecture on aesthetic surgery for local medical professionals.
Korean Society of Aesthetic Surgery Fall Conference
He lectured on the measurement of skin elasticity.
Asia Anti-Aging Conference
He lectured at the joint conference of the Asian Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (3AM) and the Korean Academy of Aesthetic Surgery.
AFAS 2019
He lectured at the Asian Forum for Aesthetic Surgery and Medicine (AFAS 2019).
Before & After
Forehead lift and forehead reduction, before and after
Drag the handle in the middle left and right to compare before and after surgery.
CASE 01 · Front
CASE 02 · Front
CASE 03 · Front
Unexpected side effects such as inflammation, bleeding, and infection may occur, and the degree may vary from person to person, so careful attention is required.
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