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Is it just my imagination that the word anti-aging gives a somewhat old-fashioned impression?

Anti-aging means “against aging,” so I don’t know why the word “anti-aging” itself looks aged, but

Perhaps it is because the trend has already come and gone.

To give a different impression, anti-aging is also called de-aging or well-aging, but in any case these words all stem from people’s longing to become younger, and ultimately, restoring aging is the long-cherished goal of every doctor in aesthetic medicine.

Let me summarize what I have explained about restoring aging to many people, including fellow doctors.

To help you understand more easily, I will use images excerpted from the lecture materials I presented at the Facial Muscle Research Society I belong to.

Our face consists of four layers, in order from the deepest: bone – muscle – fat – skin.

(Some fat also lies deeper than the muscle, but since this does not affect the overall picture, I will leave it out of this discussion.)

These four layers have sufficient volume when we are young, but as we age they gradually begin to lose volume.

When we talk about aging, we usually think only of sagging and wrinkles, so we apply things to the skin, take collagen, and get Botox. This helps with aging in the outermost skin layer, but it does not help much with three of the four layers.

Let me use a balloon as an example.

A balloon that has been fully inflated at first is firm and without a single wrinkle. Just like the skin of a twenty-year-old.

But as time passes, the air gradually escapes, and the balloon changes into a shape that has lost its elasticity.

If a deflated balloon is wrinkled, would applying a substance that helps regenerate the rubber be of much help?

It will only become taut again if you blow air back into it, right?

Here, what corresponds to the air (the support role) is the bone and muscle, and

The rubber of the balloon that sags and wrinkles corresponds to the fat and skin.

So what should we do to put the air back in (= to restore the volume of the bone and muscle layers that act as support)?

Bone volume loss is corrected with fillers or fat, so it can be resolved with a simple procedure.

Muscle volume is shaped by facial expression habits, so it can be increased through effort, but you need the help of an expert to know what kind of effort is right.

Of course, correcting only the way you use your muscles will not change much. It must be combined with other treatments, so please keep that in mind!!

If you would like to know more, please visit Cheongdam ANZ Dermatology Clinic. I hope you will meet me and become more beautiful in a natural way.

I will be waiting for you.