Hello all
I’m a Kculture loving girl and like others, I couldn't resist falling in love with kbeauty treatments (surgeries or non-surgical). I personally think through a proper researching and guide, Seoul can be a heaven to people who seek beauty and treat their insecurities…
Anyway, right now I’m into hair transplant. I’m a girl and NOT bald and have ZERO thinning. It is my original hairline where I can use some correction and bit of lowering (approximately 0.5 cm) I didn’t have much thought about it before then I happened to watch a video, a blogger who had hair transplant in Korea and was very impressed by the result. It is not a popular surgery and here is some info that I found so far regarding the surgery.
First, there are 2 types surgery. FUT is a traditional surgery, taking out a strip of scalp on the back and implanting hairs from the strip on area where you want. This is still commonly used method in the world. The cost is pretty affordable which is good but a scar comes together and high rate of sides effects when your scalp is tight. The recovery time is similar to face lift (only the incision is on the back) So much things I read about FUT but after looking into the method, I figured that this is not a right method for female hairline correction nor male hair transplant with low degree hair loss.
The other method, FUE has been out for long time and seems like they’re finally getting popular and known to public. My thought on this is…maybe people looking for a hair transplant are not old bald men anymore but younger people, men and women, who care their appearance and don’t need many hairs to implant. This is only my opinion so it can’t be wrong. The main advantage of FUE is that it doesn’t make an incision. Each hair, one by one, gets collected from the back of head and implanted in. Things I like about this is, of course the no scar thing. If I’m a bald men and needs like 10000 hairs, I rather go for taking out a strip but through several online consults, I heard that about 3000 hairs/1100 grafts are needed. This is really small number and I don’t think I need to risk the incision and damage to my scalp. It is less invasive than double-eyelid surgery and few clinics confirmed that I can fly out 1-2 days after the surgery and no stitches or dressing needed at all. Washing hair is possible from day 1. This one sounds a perfect method but when it’s done under not skilled surgeons, the survival rate is very low. I read many threads about failed FUE in turkey(HT is so cheap in Turkey) Surgeon and technicians must be skilled to handle this technique otherwise there will be no growth after the surgery…wasting of money, time and hairs... If you’re not sure whether they’re experienced or not…. just take FUT. It has less failure rate. But if it’s done by skilled doc, the result appears to be heaven.
These are the names of the clinic that I have contacted them, Mojelim, INewHair, JP, Dana, Forhair, Dr.Moh
I did digging and quick consults and will write more later…. I didn’t know that the first thread is going to this long…
What method did they use for implantation? Can you share your operation hour and how many technicians attended your surgery? I'm looking for hairline correction in SK.
Mojelim is such a big hospital with many many surgeons (so called factory)but the price is really cheap and they mostly do FUT even for women. I personally think that FUE better than FUT for most of cases. INewHair seems to do FUE hair transplant and it runs by one surgeon. Not much info about him so need more time to dig in. Yoonhairline clinic is new one and only does female hairline. Price seems affordable but not much history....wasn't able to find many b/a.
If your budget is not tight, check out Forhair korea. One of my friends from Hong Kong had HT there and his hairline looks stunning. I didn't notice he had a hair transplant cuz he wears a full fringe but one day he pulled his hair up showing his forehead and his hairline was completely changed. He had really high forehead and low density on hair line but now it looks normal, very natural. He is over mid 30 and he was smart enough not go for the Kpop Idol straight hairline. Good for him. He is not comfortable talking about the procedure so I didn't get much info out but he told me his clinic and his surgeon. I checked out the clinic and their website&insta look legit. They have the most before and after surgery photos than other clinics (They are kind of only clinic that has so many foreign patients pics plus Asian`s) They responded my first email in 3 days. I think their service is over on the weekend. During the weekdays, they replied fast. Their service explained through email sounds premium and the cost follows...techniques they use for FUE HT seems to be different but I need to dig in more. I will keep you updated when my research is over. I have other clinics in my list so ... later I will put everything in a thread.
Liposuction goes under sleep anesthesia and it has less danger than general anesthesia. Your body will recover fast from sleep anesthesia than general too. You will be in complete sleep and won’t remember at all the operation nor awake. Just make sure clinic has in house anesthesiologist.
Even they say so now, after f2f consultation, they will sure find a slot for you otherwise they are losing a client unless you are visiting in super peak season.
I think the point is that they performed the procedures without patient’s consent and didn’t explain well about the what to expect or possible side effects before to say whether the result is not ‘that’ bad.
I just read bad Namu review, permanent brow hair loss and scarring and lack of professional care to the matter. And Opera has issue of cleanness and shared operation room. Sorry for pouring only bad words but thought you should know and ask them in person to scale them right.
Agree, all the huge clinics and hospitals can manage a team to market foreigners and the rest of clinics in korea are unknown to us. I am not criticizing the big hospitals . I am sure their service and facility are great but they tend to switch the surgeons very often and so busy... I’m keen to middle or small clinics.
FUTvsFUE/ hair transplant in Seoul FORHAIR, MOJELIM, DANA
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