Dr. Jong Hoon Lee speaks at KAFC 2026, the 8th congress and international symposium of the Korean Academy of Facelift & Contouring
2026.06.21
Dr. Jong Hoon Lee of Gangnam HERA spoke at the 8th congress and international symposium of the Korean Academy of Facelift & Contouring (KAFC 2026), held on June 21, 2026 in Hall E and the 3F conference rooms at COEX, Seoul. The congress slogan was 'From Basics to Advanced: Everything about Lifting'.
The talk, 'Hybrid Treatment Strategy', covered differential diagnosis and treatment planning for nasolabial folds. It started from the observation that the same-looking fold can respond differently depending on its cause, and proposed separating two common aging mechanisms, midface descent and lower face laxity, as the first step.
Dr. Lee described midface descent as cheek fat and tissue moving downward and deepening the upper part of the fold, and lower face laxity as loss of firmness in the jawline and lower-face skin and fascia, which makes the lower fold and marionette lines more visible. The two can look alike while differing in the direction and depth of sagging and in the traction vector they call for.
The hybrid strategy centers on thread lifting and combines thread types and insertion vectors according to the degree and direction of sagging. Where midface descent predominates, the plan leans on traction with cog threads. Where lower face laxity predominates, it favors regeneration-focused combinations of mono and volume threads.
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