Dr. ㅇㄱㅎ
There are so many new clinics opening these days that I’m not sure whether a 4-year-old one counts as established yet... Still, there were plenty of surgery reviews and consultation reviews, and when I went, there were at least twenty people waiting to sit down. I could hear one or two foreign languages too, so I got the impression that about a third of them, maybe more, were foreigners. What felt disappointing was that they called three times just to confirm the appointment: the day before, on the day itself, and right before the scheduled time. So I thought they must be very strict about time management. In reality, I arrived 10 minutes early, but it still took 1 hour and 30 minutes to see the doctor. If I exclude the counselor consultation time, I basically sat waiting for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. At first they said to wait 40 minutes, then when I asked again at the 1-hour mark, they said the doctor would come within 10 minutes, and when I asked again and saw the answer change, my trust dropped a bit and I started worrying about aftercare later on too. Dr. ㅇㄱㅎ arrived. My concern was the wrinkles that appear when I open my eyes using my forehead and eyebrows, and the skin above my eyes sagging a little so that the eyelid with eyelashes was slightly being pressed down. The final eye shape I wanted was for the inner double eyelid to be hidden inward so that it would look like I currently have monolids. The doctor examined the line on both eyes and said that to improve the way I open my eyes with my forehead and eyebrows, I would need a slight tightening of the muscle used to open the eyes through ptosis correction, and at the same time an incision to improve the sagging skin. The doctor’s manner was quite firm. For example, when I said I wanted the inner end of the double eyelid line to stay as hidden as possible and not show as an outer line, he firmly said that wasn’t possible. When I asked about a non-incision method (buried suture), he strongly said that for men it is usually not recommended because the skin is thick and there is a risk it will loosen, and that if I wanted that, he would not be the doctor to do the surgery. This gave me trust because he was clear about what would and would not work, but it also felt like a communication difficulty because he seemed to insist on what he wanted more than listening to the patient. I also mentioned concerns about overcorrection and asymmetry in ptosis correction, and the doctor honestly said that of course he has made asymmetrical results before and has overcorrected cases too, but overcorrection is a functional issue that directly affects daily life, so not a single one of his patients has been left in an overcorrected state. He said that during surgery he checks eye opening and closing over and over, then checks again in person when the stitches are removed on day 5, and then again at the final follow-up one month later, for a total of two post-op checks to judge whether there is overcorrection, and that if there is overcorrection he always corrects it early before the surgery hardens and settles in place. On asymmetry, his 기준 seemed more lenient than for overcorrection: asymmetry can never be completely absent, and if the difference is too severe aesthetically, he said he checks again at the day-5 and 1-month follow-ups and corrects it early. After that I consulted with the manager and got good explanations about the schedule, anesthesia, operation time, and so on if I were to have surgery. There was quite a bit of talk about the deposit. First, they said there is about a 15% discount on the total cost if you write a review after surgery under the review conditions, and they also mentioned an extra 10% discount if you reserve on the same day. But if someone has studied enough, is prepared, and is certain, then making a reservation can ultimately lower the price, so I don’t think reservations are always a bad thing. Still, please be careful with the part where they recommend reservations, because most people are not fully decided.
Dr. ㅇㅍ ㅇㅈㅇ Because there were not just occasional surgery reviews on this community after three years since opening, but a steady stream of them, I felt confident that this was a place where many careful people who study surgery go to get treatment. In actual surgery reviews, there were opinions that the natural feel did not match their 기준, but there were no complaints about accidents or irresponsible responses, so I booked a consultation with Dr. ㅇㅈㅇ. I visited at 12:00 and left around 1:20, and from start to finish there was only about one other person besides me. Since it wasn’t extremely crowded, I thought I might be able to receive focused care, though I briefly wondered whether it wasn’t popular. But since it’s a clinic in Gangnam, it can’t really be unknown; it was probably just because it was a weekday and lunchtime. As I said above, my concern was the wrinkles that appear when I open my eyes using my forehead and eyebrows, and the skin above my eyes sagging a little so that the eyelid with eyelashes was slightly being pressed down. The final eye shape I wanted was for the inner double eyelid to be hidden inward so that it would look like I currently have monolids. The doctor, like at ㄱㄴ, said that to improve the way I open my eyes with my forehead and eyebrows, I would need a slight tightening of the muscle used to open the eyes through ptosis correction, and at the same time an incision to improve the sagging skin. There was absolutely no talk about reservation, and after deciding to think about it more, I left the clinic.
ㄱㄴ was much more detailed than ㅇㅍ, and the reason is that ㄱㄴ made me think many things, good and bad, while ㅇㅍ was simply clean and straightforward. Repeated points from ㄱㄴ were omitted when I wrote about ㅇㅍ, so please keep that in mind. Both clinics seem like they could handle the surgery, but if it were me, I would choose the place where both do surgery well and are responsible, yet where the doctor is less forceful and more on the patient’s side. If it were me
After thinking for days and discussing it with family and people around me, I decided not to do it. So what if I get a few wrinkles? Even movie actors have wrinkles, and they look so cool. I’m going to train a lot to open my eyes, build up my eye muscles, practice not using my eyebrows, and try harder than anything else to make people feel a clear expression from my words, mindset, and actions rather than from how alert my eyes look. If that still doesn’t work, or if it later becomes inconvenient in daily life, I think it would still not be too late to do it then. (So people won’t think, “What, so your eyes are already big and pretty?” I’m attaching a photo showing forehead wrinkles when I open my eyes wide and a sleepy-eyes photo with my forehead not engaged, and also the angle I figured out for taking pretty photos even with those kinds of eyes [take it with a smile and a slight lift of the head