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GRAND PLASTIC SURGERY
- 2020.07.18 10:59:41
The OPAL (Old People with Active Life) generation, which
refers to the financially secure50s and 60s middle-aged generation, was selected as
the top 10 trend keywords leading to 2020.
The OPAL generation has similar spending patterns of young people, but
they have more economic power and they also spend a lot of time and money on
nurturing themselves.
They are also interested in plastic surgery and procedures such as eye
surgery and lifting, as they seek to look younger due to the extended life
expectancy.
According to statistics from the Korean Society of Plastic Surgery,
eye plastic surgery accounts for a large portion of plastic surgery in Korea.
As eye plastic surgery becomes popular, middle-aged people also conduct surgery
such as upper and lower blepharoplasty to improve sagging eyelids that affect
the presbyopia.
Upper Blepharoplasty allows both functional problems and aesthetic
improvement by improving the problem of impaired vision or sagging eye ends by
resecting and pulling sagging eyelid skin.
Eye surgery after middle age should be pursued together with
functional improvement and aesthetic improvement by raising the lavator muscle,
which is the muscles that open the eyes, rather than double eyelid surgery.
In the case of lower blepharoplasty, it can improve the eye shape and
reduce the wrinkles by removing the fat around the eyes that is drooping due to
aging, and the sagging skin.
In addition, lifting can be done together to improve the facial and
neck lines. When a patient feels like surgery is too much of a burden for them,
it can be replaced with thread lifting. Thread lifting is designed and carried
out according to different facial shapes and wrinkles for a natural appearance,
and is conducted with non-incision.
In addition, SMAS Face and neck lifting is carried out with the aim of
improving not just the sagging cheeks but overall wrinkles and neck wrinkles of
the face by lifting up the aging SMAS layer, the support ligament, and the skin
layer all together.
It has become an era where one is not ashamed to express one's
individuality and values. Therefore, the OPAL generation does not care about
their age, but undergo plastic surgery to nurture and express themselves, and
the perception of society is changing.
In the past, cousultation and surgery accounted for a large portion of
the younger generation in their 20s and 30s, but within the last five years,
consultation and surgery for 50s and 60s have been increasing.
As such, plastic surgery is on the rise for those in their 50s and 60s
who want to live younger than their age.
However, one must decide what surgery is approriate for them self
after sufficient consultation with a plastic surgeon, and check whether there
is a responsible doctor system where the surgeon takes care of his or her
patient from counseling and surgery to post-operative care.
In addition, it is desirable to decide on a hospital after checking
whether or not the anesthesiologist's resident and guardian CCTV observation
system are available before surgery. In addition, the surgery should be carried
out after being aware that it can cause side effects such as bleeding,
inflammation and infection.
Reference: Grand Plastic Surgery-
CEO Rhee Sewhan M.D