I’m writing only facts, without any exaggeration. First of all, even if you arrive at your appointment time, you have to wait for a long time, left alone in a room. As if abandoned in the room, the entire time you wait you can hear staff members (including the director) laughing and chatting outside. They set strange surgery names and don’t explain them. What surgery this is, how it proceeds, and what result it aims for. ex) lateral canthoplasty -> posterior angle conversion ex) browpexy/lower brow lift -> ponytail They say all of them are surgeries that can only be done here. In fact, looking back now, they were just lateral canthoplasty and browpexy/lower brow lift. And it failed terribly.
These are all things I barely found out by researching after the surgery.
ex) something about Disney, cat, SCI, SO, etc. -> I don’t know what it is. They say they change the eye structure, but whether it is a broad form of lateral canthoplasty, whether they mean lateral canthal fixation, or whether they mean orbicularis oculi suspension, I don’t know.
During the pre-surgery consultation, they put celebrity photos (especially liked Jennie and Karina) on the computer and explained while talking about eye structure and so on. They forced agreement by saying “right? right?” in the middle of what they were saying.
When I tried to speak, they cut me off, and mocked me, saying things like I had heard nonsense somewhere.
When I tried to ask about side effects, their expression darkened and they sighed.
My own thoughts were not important at all.
My eyes are not those eyes, so how exactly are they going to make them like that? They didn’t actually talk about my eyes at all.
Consultation on the day of surgery? Before surgery, they put me in a gown, looked briefly (only marking the surgical area), and immediately proceeded with surgery. The most important thing: surgical skill. The incision line (suture line) is excessively extensive. They made it so anyone can see, “I’m a scar.”
In normal human anatomy, the lateral canthal ligament is attached to the orbital periosteum. But they severed this, so the outer corner of my eye was completely torn, the mucous membrane everted, everything was a mess, and my eyes became square.
Because of that, for years my eyes were so irritated and stinging, bloodshot, and tearing nonstop that I couldn’t even open them properly, and I always went around looking downward. I don’t know what they touched on the double eyelid, but there is a sunken scar like a knife mark running along the outer side of the eye. Ponytail? I didn’t know what that meant either, but later I looked it up and found out it was browpexy/lower brow lift. Apparently it’s a surgery done when elderly people have severely drooping upper eyelids. For someone in their 20s like me, it was a surgery there was absolutely no need to do in the first place. Besides, my upper eyelid was not drooping; my lower eyelid had drooped because of the botched lateral canthoplasty here. In the first place, I went there because the lateral canthoplasty here had failed horribly and I needed posterior canthal reconstruction (I received the reconstruction for free), and they recommended this saying it would lift the outer corner of my eye, so I got it, but I absolutely should not have. They said it was originally 5 million won but discounted it to 3.5 million won. In fact, when doing posterior canthal reconstruction, if they cover only the lower white area near the outer corner of the eye with lateral canthal fixation, the outer corner automatically lifts. Anyway, I was not informed beforehand that this surgery could cause loss of sensation due to nerve damage. Because of swelling, for at least 3 months my brow bone protruded like a Westerner’s supraorbital ridge, making me look like an alien. It was a brow “lowering” lift, so why is there a vertical scar above my eyebrow? Even after more than 6 months, there is still a large depressed scar above my eyebrow that looks like a burn. It is obvious to anyone. I don’t know whether they did a brow lift or what. For the posterior canthal reconstruction, one side was not done properly and is still gaping, and the other side was closed too much, so it is D-shaped (after an ophthalmology visit and close examination, they said this side is also gaping). They probably did not do periosteal fixation again. In short, one side is exactly the same as before reconstruction, and one side became D-shaped (when I went to an ophthalmologist, they said this side was also gaping and there could only be functional problems.)
Follow-up consultation? It was clearly abnormal to anyone, but they just repeated that it was okay and pretty. When I asked why the reconstruction was underdone, they compared it to hemming pants and said they had left some for later. Then why did they overcorrect the other side and make it D-shaped? I was going to ask, but I gave up because it seemed like communication would be impossible anyway.
When I went for follow-up, they said my eyes were originally droopy and recommended three more surgeries to me. Eye-end SO 2.6 million won / eye-end lower blepharoplasty aegyo SO 3.5 million won / posterior extension 1 million won apparently; I was dumbfounded. What even is that SO? I asked whether I couldn’t do just one of them, and they said I had to do all three. It seems like they split a general lateral canthoplasty into several surgeries as if they were multiple separate procedures and charge separately for each to get more money. If I had received this, it really could have been a disaster. Posterior extension seems like lateral canthoplasty, but my eyes were already ruined because of lateral canthoplasty, and they’re telling me to do it one more time? They must be properly insane. At consultations with other hospitals, all of them said it could be resolved with just posterior canthoplasty restoration/reconstruction, and that lateral canthal fixation is included within posterior canthoplasty restoration. This place doesn’t feel like a hospital, just merchants, and it feels like a hospital that sells products rather than providing treatment or improvement. Of course, if you have surgery here, you throw away your money and ruin your life too.
Scars are usually managed by hospitals as aftercare (swelling-reducing injections such as hyaluronidase), and of course they just do it. But this place gives some kind of stem cell? regenerative injection for 100,000 or 200,000 won per session. I was dumbfounded when I first heard this too, but at the time I was desperate and got fooled again. Of course, there was no effect. When I came with my parents, they said they would give me one free session; Later, when I looked it up, they say stem cells have not been proven for scar treatment at all, and it’s all marketing using plausible terminology. For the depressed area, it seems they just fill it with filler to make it look less sunken.
The staff have no medical knowledge or plastic surgery knowledge. They didn’t even know what a granuloma was. I’m not certain, but it seems like they just use young people in their early to mid-20s, new to society, as part-time workers. Usually after surgery, you need aftercare such as dressing changes and disinfection, but there is none of that here, and you visit only once on the day stitches are removed. You go into something like a hyperbaric oxygen tank for 20 minutes? and come out, but it has no effect at all. In the first place, it’s not done regularly, so how could it possibly be effective? The director also absolutely does not remove stitches. A nurse, nursing assistant, or support staff member came after brushing their teeth and removed the stitches.
KakaoTalk is kind before surgery, but after surgery it becomes careless, as if they’re annoyed. Since the staff have no medical knowledge, no matter what I ask, they wouldn’t understand any of it. They just keep repeating that I should come in.
I felt that if I had more revision surgery here, my life would truly fall apart, so I had re-reconstruction at another hospital, and fortunately the result came out well and I’m recovering well now. I spent almost 3 years in hell. After the reconstruction and browpexy/lower brow lift, I couldn’t even go outside. If I could turn back time just once in my life, I would go back to the day before my first surgery here. I’m timid, so I couldn’t protest passionately, but I’ll emphasize it once again. One person’s life was ruined terribly.