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Your nose looks great (goals!). I hope to get my shape like that. I've been consulting with Namu and plan to book an appointment with Dr. Hong.

BTW your review was really helpful, but tbf it was sort of scattered all over the place, and I'm very OCD especially about formatting. I took some liberty to make a cliff notes version / summary for any others coming across the thread trying to piece together like I was. hope that's OK.

Sonaya714 - Revision Rhinoplasty at Namu
Female / Southern California / Vietnamese American

Namu Plastic Surgery (July 2018)

• Dr Joung
• Satisfied with result / nice clinic, staff and service with good price.

• Donor Rib
• Silicone Bridge

• Photos:

• 13 days after
• 7 weeks after
• 1 year & 2 months

Past Primary Rhino History

• Done 15+ years ago (2002~2003) in Huntington Beach, California:
  • L Shaped Implant
  • Got infected and removed with a few months after surgery

Looking into Korea & Online Consults:

• Started to look into using rib for revision rhino and reached out to Korean clinics online:
  
  • V̶I̶P̶ ̶P̶l̶a̶s̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶S̶u̶r̶g̶e̶r̶y̶ (too expensive $11K+ USD)
  • V̶i̶e̶w̶ (did not match her criteria)
  • C̶i̶n̶d̶e̶r̶e̶l̶l̶a̶ (did not like consultant's attitude)
  • I̶D̶ did not like reputation "blacklist" rumor)
  • T̶L̶ ̶P̶l̶a̶s̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶S̶u̶r̶g̶e̶r̶y̶ (did not match criteria)
  • G̶r̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶P̶l̶a̶s̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶S̶u̶r̶g̶e̶r̶y̶ (did not like reputation "blacklist" rumor)
    
  • GNG (picked this clinic and made a deposit 500,000 KRW or ~$484 USD )

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Going to Korea & Face to Face Consulting

• Her sister in law passed away right before the scheduled Korea trip, so canceled everything.
• After the funeral, reconsidered and re-booked Korea to move-on & forward.
• Stressful flight with layovers, missed transfers and lost luggage.

Cancelled GNG and chose Namu instead.

She went to GNG and got all the health tests done, and was set for surgery she felt GNG was very professional and nice facility.

Even though she had a deposit at GNG and was committed to go there she decided to browse more options for due diligence sake. Also something in the back of her mind told her to look into things more.

• Dream Plastic Surgery (good consult & price, but didn't have cash on hand for deposit anyway)
• Namu Plastic Surgery:
  • Stumbled upon a PF review about Namu, Kakao messaged original poster (James)
  • Then messaged Namu and consulted, and was a lot more reassured at Namu.
    • Consultant: Linda
    • Surgeon: Dr Juong
  • Decided to finally pick Namu based on overall positive gut feeling and cancelled at GNG.

 

sounds like normal jitters and butterflies, which is a good and normal thing. So far Namu seems to be the clinic that puts me at most ease and they've been really professional and I like communicating with their consultant. I think i'll also feel better after doing a face to face consult.

i think it doesn't hurt to just ask. as long as it's a reasonable, i didn't bother with uvom since they don't really reply, but claire at namu was pretty forth coming about the prices and seemed reasonable to negotiate with.

 

I've been leaning towards Namu as well, so far there hasn't been anything to make me feel any hesitation with them, and they've been pretty responsive and professional. just curious about what's making you feel hesitant.