A post worth reading if you're thinking about plastic surgery?

I accidentally found an article on Naver written by a medical student about plastic surgery.... It’s really frightening... I think it would be good if everyone read it once and shared their own thoughts too. I’m also curious whether people who had facial contouring or nose surgery 5 to 10 years ago or more are doing okay, or whether many of them ended up needing revision surgery again. Please leave lots of replies about your own experiences or those of people around you. Our patients, in reality, do not know the details, so when they hear what doctors say, they tend to think, well, I guess so. If doctors only tell you the advantages of their own procedure, you only know the advantages and not the disadvantages. How would we know... That is why even if you get a consultation, it is not easy to make a decision. It’s heartbreaking and truly painful.. I hope you read this article from the perspective of sharing information and helping one another, and that you can find solutions to concerns based on the real experiences of people around you or your own. ------------------------------------------ Since the post is long, to put it simply. Zygomatic bone surgery is almost always a failed surgery (it doesn’t turn out properly and the level is low) Nose surgery is also dangerous with silicone, Gore-Tex, and cartilage, and it later collapses Facial contouring is a pointless thing even professors advise against. Except for surgeries like incisional double eyelid surgery, do nothing else. I myself once struggled because of a badly done double eyelid, but I am a female medical student who was restored to my original state through revision surgery. For reference, I can confidently say that the people with the second-most plastic surgery information after specialists in cosmetic surgery these days are "female medical students," so if you know one nearby, please ask for advice. Now to the main point... You are saying you want facial surgery....... I’m still only a third-year preclinical medical student.....I still have so much to learn, I’m really just a raw beginner, but I want to give you a brief warning. Facial surgery is truly a massive undertaking. It is a surgery that goes beyond imagination in its risk. Even 5 years ago, no, when I was only a first-year premed student, if senior students said an ordinary person, not someone with a traffic accident injury or facial deformity, was going to have facial surgery, professors would oppose it with tears in their eyes. In short, it is a surgery that has only very recently been performed for cosmetic purposes. In fact, a well-known celebrity in her 30s even received a consultation at our university hospital because of complications from this surgery. I am truly, sincerely worried about the many female celebrities who have had facial surgery. I do not know exactly what surgery you want, but are you thinking of something like cheekbone or jaw surgery? If possible, look around and see whether there are people near you who have undergone surgeries other than incisional double eyelid surgery and have had no problems for more than 10 years. No. See if there are even people who have gone 5 years and ask whether there is anyone living their daily life satisfactorily with no problems at all. Professor Go Ever Lyns, who is called the leading figure in plastic surgery (at Johns Hopkins University), said at a 2005 academic conference, "In facial surgery, aesthetics is a secondary issue." In reality, among doctors in our country there are doctors, but medical researchers are extremely scarce, and research facilities are poor. It is unfortunate but unavoidable, because after studying like crazy, paying enormous tuition, and studying for 15 years, they do not want to do research for low pay. I myself do not want that either. Therefore, medical research and new development depend entirely on the West, especially the United States, Norway, and the United Kingdom. But unfortunately, in the West, double eyelid surgery and facial surgery are unpopular among cosmetic surgeries, so progress has been much slower. Rhinoplasty, liposuction, and breast augmentation are the mainstream ones. Therefore, I think the development of facial surgery has not changed much from what it was 5 years ago. I know a lot of things, and I have so much I want to say, but I can’t seem to write it coherently. The conclusion is that it is still an unclear surgery, and I want to say that even if the result is not to your liking, unless it becomes an extreme situation that causes problems in life, compensation is thoroughly denied. And if there is no lawyer in your family, it is very hard to retain one, and even if you win the case, when you add up the lawyer’s fee and the opportunity cost of the time spent, the damage 결국 falls on you. Lawyers know that medical litigation is likely to add another blemish to their business card in the form of a loss, so it is obvious they will refuse or demand an enormous retainer fee. Are you envious of celebrities becoming prettier? Thinking, why are they all getting prettier with no failures at all, what is there to worry about..... You must not think like that. Many failed celebrities are already being forgotten in our memory, and only those who succeeded remain among today’s celebrities...... Please look into how many people each year at the P Plastic Surgery Clinic, which is said to have an unrivaled position in facial surgery among so-called Gangnam plastic surgery clinics, suffer from facial deformity, paralysis symptoms, or even death. Among famous facial plastic surgery clinics, how many facial-specialty plastic surgery clinics in Gangnam are not currently involved in lawsuits... Please also look up how many medical malpractice lawsuits related to cosmetic surgery are pending at domestic general hospitals. For reference, my own medical school is one of the so-called Big 5 medical schools, but two weeks ago at our university hospital, a woman in her 20s fell into a state of unconscious paralysis while receiving jaw surgery from a professor, then woke up but developed chronic facial paralysis, so for the rest of her life she cannot smile with the right side of her face. (Similar to Nam Hee-seok.) Because the patient signed the consent form, meaning she was clearly informed that side effects could occur, and because this was one surgery where, of course, there is no such thing as a 0% side effect rate in any medical operation, the final ruling was that our professor was not at fault. In reality, it was not the professor’s fault but due to the patient’s own characteristics. In short, modern medical technology and the law cannot guarantee you anything. I am clearly telling you that, under the pretext of an unusual constitution, you could suffer for the rest of your life. Please, I am begging you not to do it. Please understand how I feel even after giving this much extra explanation. I cannot say it because of defamation, but among female celebrities there are not just one or two who are currently walking a thorny path, and even when they succeed, there are countless people visiting hospitals because of side effects such as skin sagging and trembling flesh. Sigh....... You, I read the post below and saw that you want cheekbone surgery and chin tip surgery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;; I didn’t see that and just wrote it thinking it was generic facial surgery, but I’m really trying to stop you. Cheekbone surgery is truly a hopeless surgery. Please, I’m begging you. Cheekbone surgery is a surgery even those so-called amazing celebrities do not easily undergo, or rather cannot undergo. This is not a joke, but more than 80% of the before-and-after photos in plastic surgery clinics for cheekbone surgery are virtual cosmetic simulations based on data from the DREC Plastic Surgery Society at Johns Hopkins University. Hoping that after cheekbone surgery the skin will cling smoothly without asymmetry is a scam, a gamble, and a lottery ticket. As for the danger, honestly.. no matter how much I say it, it cannot be overstated: it is an extremely dangerous surgery. If you make one wrong move and touch the brain the wrong way, it is a surgery where it is not just side effects but goodbye~earth!. It is a truly newly emerging surgery that has not even been performed for 10 full years yet. To use current double eyelid surgery in Korea as an example, with a bit of exaggeration, what you are doing now in cheekbone surgery is comparable to going back to 1985 and having a complete incision procedure at a university hospital to do a very obvious sausage-style outlined double eyelid surgery. If you really want to do it, wait 10 years until the technique is more advanced and there are no side effects on the skin, and do it then. If you have cheekbone surgery, your cheekbones may be more to your liking, but the skin will sag very unsightly, it will hurt when you smile, the flesh will tremble, and sometimes when it gets cold or hot that area will turn bluish, and I am confident that the probability of at least one or two of those side effects appearing within a year is over 50%. You know that when the skin changes, you look 10 years older!!! Moreover, in such cases there is no external trauma issue, and because it is hard to prove that cosmetic surgery was the direct cause, you cannot receive any compensation at all. Plastic surgeons will simply say your bones are nicely joined and there is no health problem, so please go home. That is the end of it. Once the patient’s complaint comes in, if they say, in my view it is normal, then there is nothing you can do. For you. A 50% side effect rate is murderous. Even a side effect rate of just 1% or 0.5% is frightening, so are you really going to bet your life on a one-in-two chance at such a young age? I have advised more than 50 people who wanted facial, breast, and other cosmetic surgeries around me to stop, and since I’m a medical student, those who trusted me and did not go through with it... before I even got my medical license, I can proudly say that I "saved 50 patients." I don’t even know why I keep thinking about it all day and obsessively trying to stop people. But as someone who was also once a victim, I simply cannot just let you go ahead with cheekbone surgery and jaw and chin tip surgery. Cheekbone surgery is a surgery that can only end up with side effects within a few years. It is true that appearance matters in this world, but as you already know from having experienced failure, what is more precious than appearance only becomes visible after plastic surgery fails. There is no point beating the ground and asking why you didn’t know before. And even the precious things that were fine before the surgery are destroyed one by one. It is an issue that even people who have devoted themselves to medicine for 15 to as many as 30 years cannot judge with certainty. With less than 5 years of study in medicine, I cannot dare to define any one field. Still, if it were me, I would say that surgery using silicone or Gore-Tex that has only just passed 10 years is still not ready, unlike hump nose surgery, which becomes safe only after an appropriate amount of time has passed (about 30 years). In my opinion, celebrities continue to receive subtle treatment during their hiatus periods. In short, even if you have nose surgery in Korea, at most it has only been 4 or 5 years. No one knows what will happen in 10 years. Moreover, our country’s medical techniques depend entirely on the United States, but the problem is that because of the skeletal differences between Koreans and Westerners, the cosmetic surgeries preferred are completely opposite. In the West, double eyelid surgery is almost never done, and nose surgery also develops in the direction of shaving the bone and removing the hump, and so on. Basically, because the nose bone is large and high, other implants are not used very often. Instead, liposuction, calf surgery, breast augmentation, and other body contouring procedures are the main ones. On the other hand, in East Asia, double eyelid surgery and nose surgery, that is, surgeries to raise the nose rather than reduce it, account for a much larger share, so implants are used. But if research is slow, there is no way implants can develop quickly. I think surgeries using the septum, that is, cartilage, will absolutely require revision within about 3 years. In reality, among people around me, whether it was ear cartilage, septal cartilage, or costal cartilage, not a single person lasted more than 3 years, and even after 2 years the bridge of the nose sinks due to natural adhesion. Alloderm is such a new compound that I am cautious about it. And osteotomy, rather than its own side effects, often leads to other implants being used during the bone cutting, and when you consider nose surgery as something that will require revision and possibly continue for a lifetime, if you do not place the implant in exactly the same position, from that point on the mismatch between the bone structure and the skin becomes terribly painful. Well..... personally, aside from incisional double eyelid surgery, I honestly think that with modern technology, nose surgery is something that, not only revision surgery, but even throughout one’s life, as skin aging and so on occur, if it cannot harmonize flexibly with the body, then must it not be done until the day you die.........that is what I think. Professors, honestly because of their social standing, are very cautious about cosmetic surgery, and I get the feeling they avoid answering. But when I talk with female seniors or read journals, I really come to think that plastic surgery is like a landmine before it explodes.