Hello. It feels like just yesterday that I posted my review of 3 types of facial contouring a year ago, but now I’m even posting a review of my fixation pin removal surgery. I still have a few more surgeries I need to do, including breast surgery, but thinking that I’m done with contouring for now somehow puts my mind at ease. A year ago, I had 3 types of facial contouring at a factory-style large hospital somewhere in Gangnam, and because of various side effects including my gums and suspicions of proxy surgery, I was so mentally distressed that I even had suicidal thoughts. Now that I’ve had the pins removed and the swelling has gone down to some extent, it feels surreal to be posting a review of the pin removal surgery. First of all, my worsened gums improved over time, but some parts (the lower front teeth) have not recovered to the pre-surgery level. For a year, I went for gum treatment twice a month. According to the doctor who removed my fixation pins, although that hospital probably would not want to admit it, it seems they touched the dental nerve during the chin-tip surgery. It does not interfere with daily life, but because there is a risk that some teeth could break or fall out, I was told I can no longer do intense exercise. If your teeth become loose after facial contouring surgery, especially if they feel like they are floating, it is 100% the hospital’s fault. It means they touched the dental nerve. If the dental nerve was touched during facial contouring surgery, it is probably correct to assume 100% that a proxy doctor performed the surgery. When I had the pin removal surgery too, the doctor asked who I had received this surgery from, and when I said I got it from so-and-so at a certain hospital, he said, “Why did they use so many pins? This doesn’t look like that person’s work...” It turned out that the doctor who removed my fixation pins had worked at that hospital in the past, so he knew the surgical styles of the directors there. When he said it seemed like someone else had done it, I suddenly started crying... I wanted to go to that hospital and confront them, but when I thought about it possibly going as far as a lawsuit, I got scared first. And I had heard that most large hospitals have separate legal teams, so even if a patient raises this kind of suspicion, they are not scared in the slightest and instead push back strongly against the patient...ㅠㅠ Anyway, I was very satisfied with the result of the pin removal surgery. Like the 3 types of facial contouring, the intraoral incision is the same, but the surgery time is relatively short and the incision is only minimal. Maybe because of that, I was able to eat regular meals from postoperative day 4. I’m on day 6 now, and the swelling has gone down a lot, to the point that I could put on makeup and go around. I was worried it might strain my gums, but there was none of that at all, and I’m going to get the stitches under my ears removed in 2 days. They said the intraoral stitches will be removed 2 weeks after surgery. They said they are dissolvable stitches, but I’m still planning to have them removed. Also, for 4 days after surgery, I went to the hospital every day to reduce swelling and received light therapy. A small clinic is definitely more expensive for surgery than a factory-style large hospital, but they pay more attention to you. The reality is that most consultation managers see patients only as money, so they barely care after surgery. But small clinics aren’t like that. I’m thinking of breast surgery for my next surgery, but no matter how cheap it is, I absolutely have no intention of going to a factory-style large hospital where proxy doctors are rampant. I experienced firsthand and learned that when surgery fees are cheap, there is always a reason. And when choosing a hospital, especially for contouring and breasts, since the surgery fees are not small, I hope you verify thoroughly before choosing. Honestly, I think for eyes and nose, plastic surgeons’ skills have become standardized, so it doesn’t matter much which hospital you go to, but I heard that for breasts and contouring, there is still quite a big skill gap between doctors. Especially with facial contouring, once you do it, you cannot reverse it, so you have to be extremely cautious. So that you do not end up going into a factory-style operating room like I did and having a proxy doctor perform the surgery.
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