1. Other clinics said I needed skin excision + an incisional method, but he said the skin under the eyebrow is the thickest and heaviest part of the upper eyelid area, and that its sagging is the cause, so the thin part of the eyelid close to the eye should not be excised.
1-2. Therefore, the basic proposed plan was rotation + epicanthoplasty + buried suture method (though I think he said he would make scratches like dotted lines). If I also wanted to address the fullness of the upper eyelid area, he said the best result would be to do a sub-brow lift first and then proceed with that plan after 2 months.
2. When I had consultations together with my older sister, he said I needed the incisional method, but when I went for a consultation alone (not a re-consultation based on the existing chart; this time I visited under my own name as a new consultation, so he did not remember me), he said he would do a hybrid? something partial-incision buried suture method.
3. He is the person who wrote the book on ptosis correction surgery, but he said that ptosis correction, which these days is done almost everywhere as a basic option, can make the eyes feel stiff and uncomfortable when blinking because it involves touching the muscles, so it would be better not to do it. So since it was the professor saying it, I was glad to learn the new fact that I did not necessarily need it. But among clinics in Seoul, other than Dr. Shin, there were almost no places that said I did not need ptosis correction There were even places that said they would not do the surgery if I did not do it. It seems Dr. Shin originally developed ptosis correction only for severe ptosis patients whose pupils show one-third or less…
4. He extremely dislikes repeating explanations, so you should be careful about this.
Overall: I kept worrying and asking whether a sub-brow lift is not something people do when they are older, and he did say it has nothing to do with age. However, when I looked into rotation at other clinics, they said it is epicanthoplasty restoration, so I realized it was a much bigger surgery than I thought and ultimately did not decide to do it. (Usually, even with epicanthoplasty, it is important not to overdo it, right? But with rotation, they basically make an incision that exposes the inner corner widely, then have to adjust the fixation position of the medial canthal tendon, so they said you can essentially think of it as a large-scale expanded version of epicanthoplasty restoration..)