Surgery on 2022/12/2 (If possible, do it in winter when you can cover your head with a beanie, and don’t do it on a day that includes the weekend. They rest on weekends, so when you come back later you won’t be able to go in. It’s more convenient if you schedule it around Monday.) I was coming up from the provinces, so it was a bit hard, but anyway, the people in the lobby were kind (they explained things well). The price is a bit high, but I recommend that this is the only place in Korea that does brow bone shaving. Or rather, this is the only place that can do it ㅇㅇ (I looked at quotes from other places and heard about their methods, and it was truly a horror movie. Here the price is only a little higher, but the surgical method is realistic; the other places are hell. Money doesn’t matter, absolutely not! If you don’t want your face ruined, I seriously recommend scrimping and saving more money and doing it here.) Other hospitals say they cut all the way from the left ear to the right ear and open the scalp wide, but that’s only because they can’t do it any other way, so it’s a disaster. This hospital makes three small incisions in the scalp, inserts a patented drill, and shaves it down, so aside from the swelling there isn’t much visible. There is some hair loss around the incision area, about the width of a pinky finger joint, but it gradually grows back. Surgery concept) In the frontal bone, when you look from the side, there is a large hollow in people. Shaving this down with a drill is called bone reduction, and if that hollow is too large and the front forehead bone is too thin to shave, they press it down to lower it, which is called osteotomy (the bone may crack a little during the process; that can’t be helped, and in some cases surgery may very rarely be impossible depending on the case). The doctor looked like a real specialist, dripping expertise, and if you ask, he explains what’s needed and estimates based on the X-ray situation. If he says he can’t shave it as much as you want, that means your bone shape can’t be helped. He’ll also ask whether you can accept a dramatic result and the risks, or whether you want it shaved down safely. After deciding, you set the surgery, pay the remaining balance on the day, and go through with it. You get sedation anesthesia, and when you wake up you’re still in the middle of surgery; after local anesthesia kicks in, you don’t feel a thing. After all that, they wrap you in a compression bandage, give you the things you need, explain the precautions, and send you home (since blood collects in the forehead, you have a blood drain attached, so it dangles there). Right after surgery) But because this is a procedure where they make small holes above the forehead and work inside the forehead, once the anesthesia wears off later it hurts like crazy. I ended up going to the emergency room in the middle of the night that day because I couldn’t take it anymore, explained everything, got a painkiller injection, and came back. Still, that night I vomited too ㄷㄷ (Cold sweat + shaking from pain + forehead pain + vomiting) hit me, and it was miserable, but I kept going with just one thought: this is hell now, and if I endure this pain I’ll be born anew. Pain differs from person to person, but remember: this is major surgery, so you have no choice but to accept the risks. For 3 days after surgery (they told me to come back after that), I couldn’t even wash, and because of the sweat on my head it was caked and hardened, but time keeps moving. If you keep icing diligently and go to the hospital, they wash your hair, remove the blood drain, put staples in the cut area of your scalp, and tell you to come back later. Then they check your progress and confirm whether there was any osteotomy (bone fracture) in the bone structure; if there isn’t, that means it went well, and if there’s a crack and part of the bone fractures, they tell you to be careful when blowing your nose (you have to accept the risks, right?). Later they told me to keep wearing the compression bandage so it was almost like part of my forehead, so I diligently did that. Later the staples were removed, they checked the progress, and I diligently kept doing compression bandages, cold compresses, and hot compresses. I’ve regained some sensation in my forehead now, though a little less than normal, but the effect is amazing. It definitely was worth the money. However, unless your brow bone issue is such a huge complex that you can’t sleep because of it, don’t do it. It really hurts and it’s tough. On top of that, I thought I was going to die from the pain that day, and if you schedule the surgery late, the hospital closes and there’s nothing you can do. (They’re also closed on weekends, so you can’t go.) If you have a lot of money, do it. You can book a hotel and go back and forth, or go from home to the hospital and back. The result was good, so this review is short, but even I think I’m pretty hardcore. Anyway, I’m doing well now, and I just need the sensation in my forehead to fully come back.
- Doctor
- 김남복
- Price
- ₩7,700,000
- Median for Eye Surgery: ₩1,900,000
- Visit type
- 2
Ratings
- Doctor kindness5/5
- Consultation expertise5/5
- Staff kindness5/5
- Facility4/5
- Expectation5/5