더스완 — Review

I’m writing only the facts without exaggeration. First, even if you arrive at your appointment time, you have to wait alone in a room for a long time. It feels like you were dumped in the room, and all the while you can hear the staff outside, including the director, laughing and chatting. They give procedures strange names and don’t explain them. What surgery is it, how does it proceed, and what result is it aiming for? ex) back canthoplasty -> posterior canthal angle conversion ex) brow lift -> ponytail They say these are all surgeries only they can do. Looking back now, though, it was just back canthoplasty and a brow lift. It was ruined beyond words. These are all things I only found out later by looking them up after the surgery. ex) something like Disney, cat, sci, so and whatever -> I have no idea what that is They say they change the eye structure, but do they mean a wide-range lateral canthoplasty, lateral canthal fixation, or suspension of the orbicularis oculi muscle? During the pre-op consultation, they put celebrity photos on the computer, especially Jennie and Karina, and explain while talking about eye structure and so on. They keep forcing agreement, saying things like, “Right? Right?” in between their own words. If I try to speak, they cut me off. They mock me, saying I must have heard some weird things somewhere. If I ask about side effects and the like, their expression darkens and they sigh. My opinion isn’t important at all. My eyes are not that kind of eye, so I don’t understand how they claim they can make them that way. And they don’t even talk about my actual eyes. Consultation on the day of surgery? Before surgery, they put a gown on you, take a quick look (they only mark the surgical area), and then immediately take you to the operating room. The most important thing is surgical skill. The incision line (suture line) is excessively wide. Anyone can see it is a scar. Normally, the lateral canthal ligament is attached to the orbital periosteum. But they cut it, so the outer corners of the eyes tore, the mucous membrane turned outward, everything went crazy, and I ended up with square eyes. Thanks to that, for several years my eyes stung and burned terribly, they were bloodshot, tears streamed constantly, I couldn’t even open my eyes properly, and I always walked around looking downward. As for the double eyelid, whatever they touched left a long cut-like scar on the outer side of the eye. Ponytail? I had no idea what that meant either until I looked it up later and realized it was a brow lift. They say that’s a surgery for older people when the upper eyelid sags badly. For someone in their 20s like me, it was a surgery I never needed in the first place. On top of that, my upper eyelids weren’t sagging; it was the lower eyelids that drooped because of the ruined back canthoplasty here. I originally came here because the back canthoplasty here had been horribly botched and I needed reconstruction (I got the reconstruction for free), and they recommended this saying it would lift the outer corners of my eyes, but I absolutely should not have had it. The original price was 500, but they said 350 with a discount. In fact, with reconstruction, if they only cover the lower part of the white of the eye near the outer corner with lateral canthal fixation, the outer corner will lift on its own. Anyway, I was not told beforehand that this surgery could cause numbness due to nerve damage. Because of the swelling, for at least 3 months my brow bone stuck out like a Western supraorbital ridge and I looked like an alien. It’s called a brow “lift,” so why is there a vertical scar above the eyebrow? Even after more than 6 months, there is still a large depressed scar above my eyebrow, like a burn scar. It is obvious to anyone. I don’t even know if it was a brow lift or what. The reconstruction on one side was not done properly, so it is still open, and the other side was closed too much, so it is a ㄷ-shape (when I went to an eye clinic and had it examined in detail, they said it was also open there). They probably just didn’t fix it to the periosteum again. In short, one side is just the same as before reconstruction, and the other side became a ㄷ-shape (when I went to an eye clinic, they said it was also open there and there would inevitably be functional problems). Follow-up consultation? Anyone can see it’s abnormal, but they just keep repeating that it’s fine and pretty. When I asked why they left the reconstruction incomplete, they compared it to hemming pants and said they left some for later. Then why did they overcorrect the other side and make it into a ㄷ-shape? I was about to ask, but I gave up because I figured they wouldn’t understand anyway. When I went for a checkup, they said my eyes were originally droopy and recommended three more surgeries to me: outer corner so: 2.6 million won / outer corner lower blepharoplasty aegyo-sal so: 3.5 million won / back extension: 1 million won They said that with a laugh. What the hell is that so thing? When I asked whether I could just do one of them, they said all three had to be done. It just seems like they split a normal lateral canthoplasty into several procedures and charge separately for each one to make more money. If I had had this done, I really would have been in serious trouble. The thing called back extension sounds like back canthoplasty, but my eyes were already ruined because of back canthoplasty, and they wanted me to do it again? They must be completely insane. In consultations at other hospitals, they all said it could be solved with just back canthoplasty reconstruction, and that lateral canthal fixation is included within back canthoplasty reconstruction. This place doesn’t feel like a hospital at all; it just feels like a merchant’s shop. It feels like a hospital that sells products rather than treating or improving anything. Of course, if you get surgery here, you throw away your money and ruin your life too. Scars are usually managed by hospitals through aftercare (swelling-reduction injections such as hyaluronidase), and that is normally provided for free. But here, they inject something called stem cell? regenerative injections and charge 100,000 or 200,000 won each time. Even when I first heard that, I was stunned, but at the time I was desperate and got fooled again. Of course, it had no effect. When I came with my parents, they said they would give one for free; later, when I looked it up, I found that stem cells are not yet proven for scar treatment at all and that it’s all just marketing with fancy-sounding terms. It seems they simply fill the depressed area with filler to make it look less sunken. The staff have zero medical knowledge or plastic surgery knowledge. They didn’t even know what a granuloma was. I can’t be certain, but it seems they just use young people in their early to mid-20s as part-time workers. Usually after surgery you need dressing and disinfection as aftercare, but there is none of that here, and you only visit one day to remove the stitches. You go into something like a hyperbaric oxygen tank for about 20 minutes and come out, but it has no effect at all. It’s not even done regularly, so how could it possibly have any effect? The stitches are also never removed by the director. Some assistant staff member, whether a nurse or a nursing assistant, came after brushing their teeth and removed them. KakaoTalk messages were kind before surgery, but after surgery they became careless and half-hearted as if bothered. Because the staff have no medical knowledge, no matter what I ask, they don’t understand a single thing. They just keep repeating that I should come in. I felt like if I had another revision surgery here, my life would really go to rock bottom, so I had re-reconstruction at another hospital, and fortunately the results turned out well and I’m recovering well. I spent nearly 3 years in hell. After the reconstruction and 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 not bold enough to complain passionately, but I’ll emphasize this again: a person’s life was utterly ruined.

Doctor

황성호

Price

₩6,600,000

Median for Eye Surgery: ₩1,900,000

Visit type

2

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