<After (asymmetry much improved)><After><Before (when my eyes were uneven)>It’s me. I had double eyelid surgery four times before. It’s not the Olympics, but I was getting it done once every four years. One eye always had weaker opening strength, so whenever I felt the uneven asymmetry was gradually getting worse, the fold would inevitably come undone. I have a job with a lot of meetings and conferences, but it became hard to make eye contact, and I developed social avoidance and photo avoidance too. Because my ptosis was severe, when I kept my eyes open for a long time my eyelids got so tired that I would usually keep my eyes closed. Previously, I had non-incisional buried sutures, natural adhesion, and ptosis correction, but recently the interval before it came undone shortened even more to about 2 years, and I felt I had reached the limit. Every time I had revision surgery, I rationalized it by thinking, “This will be the last one,” but that was my misconception. It’s easy to say, but each time it takes at least half a year for the swelling to go down and for everything to settle. I thought a lot about what to do, and with the mindset that this would be the last double eyelid surgery of my life, I decided to choose a good clinic, and that’s how I went to Ollo Plastic Surgery for a consultation. The wishes of people who hope for double eyelid surgery are simple. A pretty line that is symmetrical on both sides, and a permanent state where both eyes open well. I wanted to know whether that was possible, and I resented my eyes because it had never been permanent until now. Not every single-doctor clinic is like this, but during the consultation, they really spent a long time examining me. The director has very exotic and handsome eyes, so maybe because of that, he looked at my face with intense concentration as if sculpting it, and examined me so carefully that I felt like I had become a work of art. I’m not joking. Feeling this way was also part of why my trust went up. He confidently and clearly suggested, “You need this and this,” so I think it was easy to make choices and ask questions. The price was on the higher side, so I hesitated a little, but the director told me in advance, honestly, that my eyes would not become 100% symmetrical. That was because my bone structure and muscular opening strength were congenitally asymmetric. Hearing that actually made me trust him more, and I felt it showed confidence in his surgical skill. Honestly, when a doctor looks at a patient’s condition, they can probably predict the result to some extent, and I liked that he shared it without hiding it. I felt he was respecting me, someone who had failed surgery four times. The reason men insist on non-incisional methods is obviously because they don’t want signs of surgery to show, but the director firmly recommended incisional ptosis correction, and I accepted it. At that point, I didn’t care whether it showed or not. I had reached a stage where I would do anything as long as it didn’t come undone, and because I lacked fat in the upper eyelid area, I also had fat grafting using fat taken from my navel area. What surprised me on the day of surgery was the doctor’s touch, of course, and also that the nurses were really good at their jobs. Anyone who has been to a few clinics will know right away, but I felt it from the very first injection. I was saying, “It hurts,” but it didn’t hurt. I had surgery while half-sedated, and the anesthesia wore off slightly right before the surgery ended. It was an awkward time to anesthetize me again, so we barely finished without re-anesthesia, and luckily it was only a prickling sensation and did not hurt much. The director told me something I had never heard during my previous four surgeries. I have a stitched scar on my right eyebrow. When I was young, I got hurt while playing around, badly enough that my brow bone was exposed, and he later told me that the scar from that time caused adhesion and affected the left-right symmetry, and that he released that area during surgery. I was grateful that he took care of a part that could have been overlooked without close examination. After surgery, they gave me a package, and this was the first clinic I’ve been to that gave organic pumpkin juice and other suckable items as samples to help swelling go down. I don’t know if all clinics do this these days, but I was really touched. When I went for disinfection the day after surgery, the director personally checked me, and when I had the stitches removed at one week, the director checked me again, so I was very surprised because I had never experienced that even once before. Usually, after surgery, it’s really hard to see the doctors. It may be because of their busy schedules, but usually they run away.... Even at the clinic where my surgery failed right before this, the consultant defended them and blamed me, the patient, saying it was because I originally looked that way, so I was really hurt. In general, I think it’s not easy for a doctor to personally step in and provide aftercare. Patients become very sensitive and anxious right after surgery, so they turn into question bombers, but despite knowing that, the fact that the doctor personally listens, explains, and reassures you alone proves that Ollo is definitely the best plastic surgery clinic. I also asked one or two somewhat sensitive questions, but he answered calmly, and in the end they were resolved! And a few weeks later, unluckily, I got a stye in my eye. I had been managing it diligently, but I guess it got infected. The consultant told me to stop by the clinic, so I went, and the director personally examined and treated me again. Fortunately, the surgical site itself was not directly infected, so it was resolved with simple drainage. Because it was an incisional method, the surgical area is still hard and the sensation is dull, but now it has gone down a lot, and I’m doing very well in daily life. More than anything, my eyes feel comfortable and open clearly, so I’m extremely satisfied, and it feels like a miracle. That’s my brief surgical review up to here. If someone asks about double eyelid surgery, I would be willing to recommend Ollo without hesitation, and I’ll wrap up hoping this was helpful for patients in a situation like mine. For reference, the surgery I had was incision, ptosis correction, epicanthoplasty, and eyelid fat grafting.
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This review is for a surgery seeking reconstruction.