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The Slim Facelift

2/27/2021

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Patient E: What can I do to give me an overall slimmer face? I would also like the sagging areas to be lifted. Can it all be done in the same setting?

The answer to the question posed above is - The Slim Facelift! 

It is also a common to hear patients having fillers placed to augment the cheeks or along the nasolabial folds, yet most of the time, these fillers might be excessive and not helping to achieve a slimmer look.

If fillers alone were chosen to lift your face, the result will definitely look nice, BUT it also comes with a price - where your face will inadvertently look more puffed up. This might be good in cases where volume loss is significant. However, in most Asian women, good volume is present and just needs to be repositioned to the right areas.

Steps To The Slim Facelift

(1) Complete Facial Assessment
A good treatment would usually start off with the right diagnosis, in our case, it is about being able to see which areas when improved, can give you significant results. Your doctor should be able to point this out for you before discussing any treatment options.

(2) Goal Directed Hyalase
Excessive fillers placed prior should be dissolved partially or completely to give an optimal facial volume.

(3) Repositioning Facial Volume 
The Bliss Lift is a technique using specialised minimally invasive surgical threads to target and reposition sagging areas in the face. These areas commonly include the nasolabial folds, jowls and also double chin region. 

(4) Replacing Sunken Facial Contours
Advanced fillers like Radiesse / Ellanse should be selected to give volume replacement via collagen stimulation. Specialised techniques like RVR - Pro Lift and skin revitalisation should be incorporated on the same setting to give optimal results. 

(5) Modulating Excess Facial Fats
Minimally invasive methods like Ogee Touch can be used to allow reduction to excessive fat deposits in the face. For larger regions, a day liposuction can be carried out to sculpt the affected region. 

(6) Understanding Which Comes First
Decision on which comes first will be based on the experience of the doctor that you consult.  
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45 Degree View Neck & Jawline Skylift
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Frontal View Neck & Jawline Skylift
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Ogee Touch Recontouring
** Dr Sin Yong is a MINT Facelift Trainer and also trains other doctors in the use of various types of dermal fillers on top of face threads. Find out more from your doctor what the overall plan is before proceeding. It is common for patients to have had too much fillers resulting in a overfilled face, usually across the cheeks and nasolabial folds. In these cases, Dr Sin Yong would use Goal Directed Hyalase to resculpt the areas involve as part of The Slim Facelift. 
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Luscious Lips

12/20/2020

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Patient: I want my my lips to be full and luscious. What do you recommend?

Aging of the lips has been described in my prevous post. 

Now, we shall now focus on what we can actually do to achieve the end result - Luscious Lips! 

If the main defect is on the red lips, dermal fillers specific to lips are a good option. However, it is important to make sure that other areas have been addressed such as the teeth, upper white lip, skin quality before jumping to lip fillers. 

Steps to Luscious Lips

1. Consultation & Evaluation​
- A thorough evaluation should be conducted by your doctor before the procedure to determine which areas will give you the best results.
- If other aging mechanisms are present, the use of other modalities should be considered. 
- Failure to do so will usually result in a duck lip where fillers are placed in the wrong place, giving a poor result. 

2. Numbing Preprocedure
- Numbing cream is applied to achieve comfort for the actual procedure.

3. Luscious Lips Filler Procedure
- Depending on what ratios you are keen to achieve, fillers are then used in the respective planes and areas to give the final Luscious Lips result. 
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*For this lips, Dr Sin Yong used 2ml of lip fillers to give the Luscious Lips results.
** Dr Sin Yong uses a combination of
- Time Freeze Laser to remove wrinkles and shrink the area of the upper white lip
- Specific Lip fillers to enhance the shape of lips
- Bliss Lift Techniques to reverse downturned mouth corners

Find out more about which of these treatments can give you the Luscious Lips result!

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Fat Grafting or Fillers

11/9/2020

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Patient: Dr Sin Yong, I want to look younger. My friends suggested that I go ahead for fat grafting to improve me facial volume.

Is that the best option for me?

Fat Grafting has been around since the 1900s and has progressed to allow for improvement of volume in multiple regions apart from just the face. Think about buttock augmentation, breast augmentation, etc etc

Dermal Fillers used to be bovine collagen in the 1970s and has went on to include hyaluronic acid fillers since the 2000s, a natural progression of technology and research. 

Here, let's examine the potential advantages of each!

Fillers

Fat Grafting

  • Exact "take".One ml = one ml
  • Possibility of dissolving if dislike results
  • Collagen stimulating agents for rejuvenation effect 
  • Variable hardness to give strong or soft contour depending on region intending to improve
  • No fat embolism complications
  • Ready to use in sterile syringes - Lunch Time Procedure
  • Longevity according to filler, ranges 1-3 years
  • Variable "take" according to region and individual
  • Unlikely to dissolve if overfilled 
  • Stimulates collagen depending on level of placement
  • One hardness and will grant less definition to areas that require strong lifting
  • Possibility of fat embolism complications 
  • Need for liposuction procedure with associated downtime to harvest the fat
  • Longevity is permanent

What does this mean for patients?

As a patient, you would need to consider the following factors
  1. Down Time- Fat grafting will always involve a surgical procedure to harvest the fat, whereby post procedure, there will always be some swelling and bruising over the donor site. Fillers are pre manufactured and ready to use in sterile syringes.
  2. Fall Back Plan - The question to ask here is whether you are certain of the end result. If you have tried fillers before and like the resultant look, you might be a good candidate for fat grafting if you seek permanent long term results. Conversely, if you have not seen a possible end result before, jumping straight to fat grafting might be a huge risk as you will have to bear the end result as longevity is relatively permanent.
  3. Region to be treated - Certain areas such as the chin, jawline and nose will require a filling with increased hardness and stronger lifting effect. In such regions, fillers with strong lift are superior to fat grafting to provide the ideal result.
  4. Are you ready? - Ask yourself this over and over again before going for fat grafting, as this is something that is minimally reversible. It can dramatically improve your looks permanently, but also carries a possibility of permanently changing your facial contour in a way you might not like. 

Dr Sin Yong Recommendations

Depending on the area treated, the solution might not always be to fill the area with fillers. Take dark eye circles for example, we are always looking at a possibility of increased pigmentation, increased vascularity, or lack of volume. Using fat grafting or fillers as one size fit all treatment will not produce the superior results compared with using multiple modalities to target the root cause of the problem, which might be increased blood vessels or pigments. 

Dr Sin Yong trains other doctors in dermal fillers and is an advocate of advanced fillers such as Radiesse and Ellanse.
Based on region treated, he would recommend the use of advanced fillers like Ellanse / Radiesse if permissible, giving especially good results on the nose as compared to using HAs. 
HAs will have to be selected in other regions like lips / tear trough, where it would not be permissible to use advanced fillers. 

Dermal filler treatment or fat grafting is a minimally invasive procedure and cases of complication have been reported. It is hence important to select an adequately trained physician to perform the procedure for you. Do consider all the above factors before proceeding with such a procedure. 
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Neck Sculpting Ideals

8/2/2020

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Our neck undergoes aging the same way that our face undergoes aging. Changes in skin quality which consists of laxity, pigmentation and wrinkling contribute to an aged neck. UV rays from the sun only serve to compound the photodamage to our skin, leading to a neck that makes us look older. 

In Asians, we also tend to experience an increased deposition of fats just below the chin and jaw line, which rapidly obscures the ideal neck that we have, whereby there is no longer any demarcation between our jawline and neck. 
What is the ideal neck especially in sculpting?
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​Bae Suzy
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Jade Rasif
The young appearing neck always seek to display
  1. Good Skin Quality
  2. Well Defined Neck-Chin Angles
  3. Well Defined Jawlines
  4. Display of Neck SCM Muscles
  5. No Obvious Neck Lines

Steps To Revitalising Your Neck

(1) Time Freeze Laser
To increase elasticity and improve quality of skin. 
Generates lifting and tightening to improve angles as defined.
Eliminates fine wrinkles that only make our neck look old.

(2) Skin Boosters
Improve hydration and skin quality. 

(3) Collagen Stimulating Agents
Rapidly fills and elminates deep neck lines by stimulating own collagen across deep skin folds.

(4) Ogee Touch
Modulates excess fat deposition to gain clear transition from face to neck. 

(5) Neck Skylift Threadlift Technique
Lifts the submentum and excess fats.
Tightens skin and gives a defined firm appearance. 
**The degree of improvement should first be determined by an assessment of the patientt as each of us have different skin quality / fat deposition patterns. Find out more from your doctor before proceeding with any treatment.
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Chin Sculpting Ideals

7/26/2020

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Sculpting the chin can be done with minimally invasive aesthetics employing the use of dermal fillers. The ideal chin must always take into consideration the overall facial shape and adjacent areas such as the nose, neck and lips before sculpting can commence. 

Proportions of projection, elongation, retraction must be evaluated by your doctor before proceeding. Dermal fillers allow for sculpting down to every detail and also carry with it the chance for reversibility should you choose to.

Let's take a look at some photos of beautiful chins and we can see why they match and complement the facial shape of the respective person. A well projected and sculpted chin can achieve a V shaped youthful lower face!

What is your ideal chin?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Each of these beautiful faces have a chin that complements their facial shape. 
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Bae Suzy
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Adriana Lima
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Jade Rasif

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Whenever we look to improve the chin, we would always consider the lower face as an entity, to give better definition to the lower face. 

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Find out more from your treating doctor about whether the chin you envisioned matches your facial shape! 
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The Lips That Smile

1/27/2020

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The lips are always the first topic that we talk about, literally. Aging affects our lips just like how it affects our face and skin texture. You will notice how the lustre of the lips tend to fade out with age and how the upper lip tends to be plagued with wrinkles and also a resultant inward turn which causes lesser of the upper lips to show. 

Eventually, the thinning lips give off a sunken, aged appearance, and also becomes a marker which people use to gauge our age.
What can we do to rekindle our lips? 
The key is using a filler that is meant for the lips! 
Revitalising the lips encompasses many different aspects. 

I like to get a golden ratio for the upper to lower lip. At the same time we can create a keyhole pout (loved by Caucasians) or the tiny pearl of the lips (loved by Asians). 

Ultimately, symmetry and ratio is beauty and that will be the ideal lips. When we touch on the lips, I also like to tweak the mouth corners to allow  the lips to give off a gentle smile. The philtrum can also be augmented, same as for the Cupid's bow to give better definition to the upper lip.
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A natural rekindled lip is what we always aim for, with the ratios tweaked so that it helps to define the lower face! 

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Most Handsome Face 2019

1/7/2020

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And the winner is Jeon Jung Kook from Korea!
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Distinctive features that sets him apart
  • Shiny bright eyes
  • Aegyo sal
  • High nose bridge
  • Straight nose without indentations
  • Sharp lower face features
  • Lifted philtrum, good upper to lower lip ratio
  • Defined jawline
  • Strong chin 

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Taken from another angle, the features described above shine through as well. 

Over here we can appreciate that the chin has more of a heart shape to it rather than the horizontal tapering at the bottom of the chin where most caucasian men have. 
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Back to our context in Singapore, one's preference for how our chin looks is an individual choice. It is always most important for you as a patient to discuss this with your treating doctor rather than just have a chin augmentation without defining what you like. This applies the same to aeygo sal - the little tiny fat deposits below the eye. 

Key to a good aesthetic treatment outcome? 
Get involved in the discussion, evaluated by your treating doctor before commencing treatment!
​Find out more about chin enhancement here!

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Most Beautiful Face 2019

1/5/2020

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And the winner is Chou Tzuyu from Taiwan! 
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A beautiful face indeed!
  • Good Facial Proportions
  • Bright Eyes To Highlight Upper Face
  • Projected Nose and Chin 
  • Apex of Youth In The Ideal Proportion
  • Sharp Jawline
  • Defined Lower face with Good Lip Proportions

Likewise from this other picture we attest to the same observations as above.

With a brighter lighting, it becomes clear that the tear troughs or dark eye circles are virtually non existent for her, allowing the bright eyes that she have to shine through.

This photo has been taken from bottom upwards as opposed to the top photo. ​From this angle , I might suggest to further enhance the chin into a heart shaped look to define the lower face. 


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If you are affected by the following, do check out the following pages to find out how we can address it together!

Remove Dark Eye Circles
Sagging Face And Cheeks - Restore The Apex of Youth
Achieve Good Nose Projection
Enhance Your Chin Projection
Rekindle Thinned Out Lips

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