Director Sun Zhendong of Straits Plastic Surgery - Fujian's Specialist in Autologous Fat Transfer
Is facial contouring only possible through bone shaving?
NO! NO! NO! Fat grafting can achieve a smaller face too. Straits' fat sculpting for facial contouring requires no surgery or bone shaving. Using your own fat, it creates your desired facial shape with minimal trauma and a short recovery period. What kind of miracle technique is this?
Today we'll reveal its underlying principles.
Strait's fat sculpting technique combines high-light/shadow techniques with optical illusions to create facial slimming, then further refines the shape through facial fat removal.Highlight-shadow techniques and optical illusions utilize fat to create focal points on the face (such as the forehead, brow ridges, cheekbones, and jawline...), while strategically adjusting the balance of light and shadow in the mid-face area. This further refines facial contours, making the face appear smaller and more aesthetically pleasing. Employing highlight-shadow techniques can achieve greater facial reduction.
Design Philosophy
The Straits Liposculpture Facial Slimming technique is grounded in aesthetic principles. It incorporates comprehensive metrics for evaluating results, including facial shape (where trapezoidal and square faces yield relatively poorer outcomes), the three facial divisions and five eye proportions, the ratio of facial height to width, facial harmony index, and eye-nose coordination. This framework enables highly effective assessment of the technique's efficacy.
Square and trapezoidal faces with prominent jawlines present greater modification challenges, while other face shapes achieve satisfactory results.
Minimally invasive with no incisions or bone shaving—just a few needle punctures to reduce facial volume.
Suitable Candidates
The current application of fat sculpting for facial contouring primarily targets three groups:
A. Traditional candidates requiring zygomatic arch reduction
Achieve excellent results, sometimes rivaling bone shaving
B. Candidates with a round face seeking reduction
Those with significant fat accumulation in the cheeks
Through fat sculpting
Highlighting key areas like the forehead, brow ridges, nose, cheekbones, lips, and chin
by appropriately adjusting the ratio of light and shadow
combined with facial fat removal, to reduce facial volume
while preventing sagging and aging
C. Clients whose faces aren't exceptionally large but desire a more angular bone structure
Technical Advantages
The advantages of the Straits Liposculpture Facial Slimming Technique lie in: relatively significant facial slimming, with some cases achieving results comparable to bone reduction;
Pure facial liposuction often leads to skin laxity and an aged appearance.The Straits Liposculpture Facial Slimming technique employs facial liposuction to preserve key high points, avoiding excessive fat removal that causes post-operative sagging. Simultaneously, fat grafting provides lifting effects. This creates a more sculpted face with balanced proportions, addressing numerous limitations of bone-shaving procedures: hollow areas, harsh facial contours, underdeveloped maxilla, protruding lips, and bulging eyes.Skin texture improves, facial contours become clearer and more youthful... Solved with just a few needle punctures, the trauma is relatively minor, aligning with modern surgical principles of practicality and minimally invasive techniques. He is one of the province's sole members of China's 5A-level expert panel. In Fujian, he is the only plastic surgeon specializing exclusively in autologous fat grafting.