1. In other hospitals they said they had to do skin excision + incision, but they said the thickness of the skin on the upper eyelid is thickest and heaviest under the eyebrow, so that sagging is the cause; they said you shouldn’t excise the thinner part of the eyelid close to the eye. 1-2. So the basic suggested plan was axial rotation + front canthoplasty + buried suture (though they seemed to say they would make scratch-like dotted marks), and if I also wanted to address the skin on the upper eyelid, they said the best effect would come from first doing a brow lift and then, after 2 months, proceeding with that plan. 2. When my sister and I consulted together, they said I should do incision method, but when I went alone for a consultation (not a re-consult under the existing chart; this time I visited under my own name for a new consultation, so they didn’t even remember me), they said they would do a hybrid? some kind of partial-incision buried method. 3. This is the person who wrote the eyelid-correction book, and they said that eyelid correction, which is now done everywhere as a basic option, can make blinking feel dry and uncomfortable because it involves the muscles, so it’s better not to do it. So I was glad to learn that, because it’s the professor saying so, I don’t have to do it. But in Seoul hospitals, apart from Dr. Shin, there were almost no places saying eyelid correction wasn’t necessary Some places even said they wouldn’t do the surgery if I didn’t have it. It seems Dr. Shin originally developed eyelid correction surgery only for severe ptosis patients whose pupils are less than one-third visible... 4. They extremely hate repeated explanations, so you need to be careful about that. Overall: I kept worrying that brow lift was something only done when you’re older, and they did say age doesn’t matter. But after checking with other hospitals, I found out that axial rotation is called revision epicanthoplasty, so I ended up not making the final decision because I realized it was a much bigger surgery than I expected. (Usually it’s important not to overdo front canthoplasty, right? But axial rotation requires basically making a large full opening at the front first, then adjusting the fixation position of the medial canthal tendon, so they said it can be seen as a large-scale expanded version of revision epicanthoplasty..)
- Doctor
- 신용호
- Price
- ₩5,600,000
- Median for Lifting: ₩823,900
- Visit type
- Consultation
Ratings
- Doctor’s manner1/5
- Consultation expertise5/5
- Staff courtesy3/5
- Facilities3/5
- Result met expectations4/5