I wrote a post last night and went to sleep, then woke up and posted an extra one so I can level up. I’m unable to check comments on other people’s posts lol
In my opinion, I’ve had a lot of cosmetic surgery. But none of those surgeries were excessive. A lot of them are not noticeable.
I had a very typical short-headed face, and because I ate a lot of hard foods when I was young, my jaw contour bones were very developed, especially my square jaw, which was extremely pronounced.
People think that if the square jaw is severe, the face looks square, but if it is even more severe than that,
the face looks like a triangular rice ball. That was my case, and the plastic surgery clinics said they had never seen a case that severe...
That’s how I ended up having facial cosmetic surgery.
Chㅇj Plastic Surgery / mid-frequency masseter reduction: First of all, if you’re considering masseter reduction, I’d tell you to skip mid-frequency masseter reduction.
Masseter reduction can be done with radiofrequency or mid-frequency treatment, but mid-frequency has such a wide ablation range that unintended side effects
like under-ablation of the masseter / ablation of the deep buccal fat in front of the masseter can cause sunken cheeks. On top of that, there is something called muscle fibrosis,
where the muscles that were cooked are supposed to disappear, but instead they remain as they are.
Because of this, some people feel pain, I heard. It can also cause muscle spasms, and it’s a procedure that gets a lot of criticism for all sorts of problems.
I had this masseter reduction done three times. My square jaw was extremely severe. Even after the first treatment, I saw visible results.
Then I had the second treatment after square-jaw surgery, and it worked too, but a problem came up.
Mid-frequency masseter reduction is performed under local anesthesia, so I’m awake. But I felt like they were treating a slightly different area than in the first treatment.
It felt a bit deeper and much more inward. Also, my right masseter was larger, but they treated the left masseter more.
The fact that I felt they were treating a different area wasn’t just my imagination, because they went beyond the local anesthetized area. So I felt severe pain,
and even said, “Ah!” most importantly, since they kept doing the procedure in that state, I heard the nurse who was there saying, “Doctor...”
During the second treatment, the left side was under-ablated, which caused sunken cheeks, and the right side ended up with slightly more muscle than normal? There was also asymmetry.
The third treatment was done only to the extent of ablation of the right masseter.
I think the director definitely made a mistake. But they didn’t admit it, and when I asked at another hospital, they said yes, it was under-ablated, and not only the muscle
but also the deep buccal fat had been ablated. That’s why asymmetry occurred, they said. I do not recommend this hospital.
The way they avoided responsibility for the surgical result looked very bad.
If you’re considering masseter reduction, I recommend the radiofrequency masseter reduction done at ㅋㅂㅅ Plastic Surgery. I had a consultation there...
The ablation range is significantly smaller, so I think the chance of sunken-cheek side effects is very low.
* Additionally, I heard that people who have side effects from mid-frequency masseter reduction at ㄹㅇㅂ and ㅊㅇㅈ, or who are not satisfied with the results, often visit ㅋㅂㅅ for revision treatment.
If anyone has questions about mid-frequency masseter reduction and radiofrequency nerve block treatment,
please send me a message. If a lot of people are curious, I may write another post about it.
MOO Plastic Surgery: At first I went for a consultation for posterior jaw-angle reduction, but the first counselor hyped me up a lot, saying I would get a big effect from posterior jaw-angle reduction.
But when the director actually looked at me, they said my square jaw was too big and there wasn’t enough bone to remove through the area behind the ear, so I’d need an intraoral incision.
After hearing that, I felt the counselor really didn’t know anything.
So I should have gone to another hospital, but since it was a bigger surgery... when I was young, I didn’t know better, and because they said they’d do it cheaply, I just got my first cosmetic procedure at this clinic.
One thing that was somewhat impressive here was that they told me about the surgical result. After square-jaw surgery, they told me in advance that the cheekbones and chin tip would stand out more.
And then, when it was time for surgery, I don’t think I saw the director. Another doctor designed my face... seems like a shadow doctor.
For the result too, I asked them to leave the mandibular angle, and on the right side I got the angle I wanted, but on the left side the result was narrower and uneven.
It wasn’t at a level I could be satisfied with, but since the cheekbones and chin tip stood out more, I wasn’t under that much stress.
And when they checked my condition the day after surgery, I could smell alcohol.
(In the case of square-jaw surgery, my square jaw was extremely severe and my complex about it was also very severe, so even though I experienced side effects, the current asymmetrical appearance looked much better, and I was able to endure it.)
Jㅇㅇㄱ Plastic Surgery: After I got discharged from the military and returned to school, my college friends teased me quite a bit about my cheekbones.
It wasn’t even really teasing, just joking around, and since I had been relieved of my severe square-jaw complex, I could laugh it off without getting too hurt. But if my friends were saying my cheekbones were too big, then I think you can imagine how severe my square jaw must have been before that.
Anyway, after deciding to get cheekbone and chin-tip surgery, this was the first place I visited. I had a strong aversion to anything like screws or foreign material going into my face,
so I only looked into places like this.
I went in for a consultation with the director, and as soon as they saw my face, they said this is how we can do the surgery, covering both sides of my face with their palms and showing me a mirror.
One thing I didn’t like was that I wasn’t planning to shave down my cheekbones that much in the first place,
but before even asking me how I wanted to change the cheekbones, they first told me this is what we should do.
Also, while covering the temple area next to the eyebrows with their palm and saying it would turn out like this, how does the temple area go into cheekbone surgery...? Are they going to hit it in with a hammer during surgery...?
It sounded as if cheekbone surgery alone could turn my short-headed face into a long-headed face, so I didn’t trust it.
On top of that, when I asked whether shaving that much wouldn’t cause sagging, they said my cheeks were already so sunken that sagging would be fine, and that it could be filled by sagging afterward... that also didn’t sit right with me.
I also got chin-tip consultation here, and for the chin tip, I didn’t have a receding chin or protrusion, just a really mild butt-chin.
They said we’d just need to trim the butt-chin parts on both sides centered around the middle.
It was really very mild.
So I wanted one more consultation, so I left a 50,000 won deposit and held the booking, but in the meantime there was a fatal accident.
It wasn’t negligence to that extent, but it definitely seems the director was careless about the surgery. You can find related articles.
So I’d like to say not to go here.
ㄹㅋㅋ Plastic Surgery: I was debating whether to do cheekbones first or chin tip first, and I decided to do cheekbones first, so I had surgery here.
If I had decided to do chin-tip surgery first, I would have gone to ㅈㅇㅇㄱ... so this was fortunate.
At ㄹㅋㅋ Plastic Surgery, they restated the limit of my face that I already knew, which made me trust them, though it also made me feel bad.
And when I said I was worried surgery might be excessive and that I thought having cheekbones was attractive, but I was afraid they might shave them down too slim, they firmly said that would not happen.
They said people who are dissatisfied after surgery are only dissatisfied because they think the cheekbones are still left, and that there had never been a single person who was dissatisfied because too much cheekbone had been removed, so they would not do surgery that way.
I had cheekbone surgery here. One tip for cheekbone surgery is to eat lightly after surgery. You know how you strain when you have a bowel movement? That straining is difficult.
I strained while trying to have a bowel movement and burst a blood vessel near my eye.. lolololololol. Eat as little as possible so you don’t have to use the bathroom much..
Second, the eyebrow nerve gets compressed so you can’t raise your eyebrows. This is a symptom that follows you no matter where you get cheekbone surgery. A friend of mine had cheekbone surgery elsewhere and was paralyzed for about 6 months (they were drinking quite a bit), and mine lasted about a month and a half.
And the last tip is that if you get fat grafting, the fat is taken from your thigh, and it leaves a dotted mark. The facial incision site does not leave a mark. Mine didn’t leave a mark.
But the thigh does. Also, when I went home after surgery, walking became difficult like I had sore thigh muscles.
You know those squat exercises where you sit down and stand up? It feels like your legs are sore after doing that 100 times... it lasts about 3 days?
I’m very satisfied with the result, but the disappointing thing is that the recovery room is really small..
I recommend getting cheekbone surgery at this hospital.
ㄴㅁ Plastic Surgery: I was planning to go back to ㅈㅇㅇㄱ for only chin-tip surgery, but a fatal incident happened, so... this was the place I hurriedly looked up.
I guess I was a bit careless because I thought the amount of chin bone to be removed would be so small. I normally avoid large hospitals.
The hierarchy of expertise in my mind is university hospital -> large hospital -> medium-sized specialty hospital...
First of all, the advantage is that I don’t think I’ll die if I have surgery here. There are two anesthesiologists, confirmed, and the inpatient rooms are extremely comfortable.
The nurses come in every 30 minutes to check blood pressure. The surgery is done under anesthesia that is less burdensome than general anesthesia.
Postoperative care is also good. They give lots of pumpkin juice, those soy-milk-like meal drinks, mouthwash, and when they check the progress,
they give injections to reduce swelling. I went twice, and both times they gave it.
And they do what they call radiofrequency lymph node massage, a massage said to help the swelling go down faster.
But I’m dissatisfied with the surgical result. The amount of chin bone removed is really, really, really small, but I ended up with a double chin.
It’s not severe, just a mild issue, but it feels very much like trying to remove one bump and ending up with another one attached..
It may have been because my square-jaw resection was large... maybe it would have been fine if I had only had chin-tip surgery...
but the sagging chin skin from the square-jaw surgery may have become visible after chin-tip surgery..
And they talk about some kind of postoperative responsibility guarantee system here, but it’s a lie.. they do all sorts of stuff “until you’re satisfied,” but that’s a lie..
Before my surgery, I asked if it was really a responsibility guarantee system, and they said it applies to eyes and nose, but not facial contouring, because once the bone is cut out, that’s it.
But if you look at blogs and such, they write that facial contouring also has a responsibility guarantee system. Believing that really hurts..
That’s just marketing, so don’t believe it.
ㅇㅇㄹㅁ Plastic Surgery: After chin-tip surgery left me with a double chin, I wanted to fix it, so I looked into laser, thread lifting, and many other things.
But there were so many clinics basically trying to sell me something, saying I had to do something, and that nothing would get better if I did nothing.
Since there was no guarantee of effect, I eventually wondered if surgery was the answer, and when I searched for double-chin surgery, I found this place and ㄴㅂㅇㅇ, but ㄴㅂㅇㅇ seemed to have too large an excision range, so I skipped it for now and booked a same-day appointment at the place that was close to the hospital where I had originally consulted.
I didn’t get to see the director because they were in surgery, but the counselor was really good.
She was genuinely pretty, but beyond that, she didn’t feel pushy at all. This was the first place that told me, “Your double chin isn’t that severe.”
Because I’m sensitive about my face shape, I thought it just looked obvious to me, but hearing that the double chin was present yet not severe, and that among people who come for this surgery it’s only a mild level, made me trust them more.
It felt like some of my emotional wounds had been healed, and I’m planning to go back next Monday (January 7) to see the director.
I definitely plan to thank them then. Other clinics create an atmosphere where they encourage you to do any procedure, but this place’s counselor was the only one who said, “It’s okay,” and that meant a lot.
I had been slipping into it like a complex, but it suddenly got resolved. They also scheduled me for next Monday and said that if I change my mind, I don’t have to come, just call ahead and let them know, which I liked even more.
I still haven’t found any side effects from the double-chin surgery itself..
If anyone has questions after I go to the consultation on Monday, I’ll answer them additionally.
Besides that, if anyone has questions other than eye/nose surgery, feel free to ask about implant surgery, fat grafting, sunken-cheek fillers, Botox, contour injections, and similar things.