Collagen production generally begins to decline once we reach our twenties, and by our thirties and forties the young, firm look fades. The features of what is commonly called an aged face are a sagging jawline, fine wrinkles, hollow cheeks as baby fat disappears, sunken upper eyelids and lost facial volume. Looking at female celebrities who look far younger than their thirties or forties, you can see that their faces are taut and free of fine wrinkles. Most of them have a heart-line face shape with volume kept in the forehead, cheeks, front cheekbones, upper eyelids and nasolabial folds while still showing a V-line. According to experts, this heart-line face shape is known as the one that makes a woman's face look most beautiful and youthful, but the problem is that it is often something you are born with and hard to obtain through effort. That is even more the case if facial fat in the areas that need it has naturally disappeared with age or was never there to begin with, and since the face is one of the first places to lose fat when dieting, it is also hard to pursue alongside body management. So some women who want to overcome an aged look and gain a youthful one choose heart-line fat grafting as their final option. Heart-line fat grafting is a full-face fat grafting procedure that restores volume across the whole face while creating a V-line, a way to produce a three-dimensional face and a slim jawline at the same time. According to Dr. Yoosuk Chung, Director of TheLINE Plastic Surgery, the recent trend in fat grafting is natural rather than excessive fat injection along with a high graft survival rate. Preferring a facial line that looks more natural over heavy fat injection, and focusing on whether the result lasts longer, is what sets it apart from before. Heart-line fat grafting that applies this trend raises the graft survival rate through 5-stage micro-fractionated fat grafting, which places fat in the skin layers in several stages, and Lipokit fat grafting, which minimizes the exposure of fat cells to air, and it completes a youthful look by grafting the patient's own fat into areas that need volume such as the forehead, cheeks, front cheekbones, upper eyelids and nasolabial folds. What characterizes it is that it does not stop at simply injecting fat: it maintains overall facial balance through movement, repositioning and injection, and it takes care that the face looks three-dimensional not only from the front but also from the side and at an angle. Dr. Junmo Bang, Director at the clinic, stressed, "Because it is a procedure that uses the patient's own fat, there is less concern about side effects and it generally does not interfere with daily life, but since it is performed on the face, having a one-on-one consultation with a specialized medical team first matters more than anything."
