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Same here. I am sure it heavily depends on the clinic and doctor involved but Korea seems to have WAY more safety measures and practices in place by law to protect patients.

So for chin surgeries, it isn't always about the outside appearance. Sometimes it involves the bite. So where teeth lineup and it corrects issues with under and overbites. Some people, you can't tell much of a difference because of this.

My cousin is. I will let you know how things go for her. I can't remember what clinic she had booked with but it isn't the one you mentioned. I will have to ask her. I believe she heads over there the third week of October.

Yeah, that is what that means. Skin tucking, removal, etc. So basically everything that falls under this includes body lifts, tummy tucks, arm lifts, thigh lifts, and breast lifts. All designed to help fix the look, shape, and feel of the body post weight loss.

It is usually called buccal lipectomy or cheek reduction surgery. But it also is part of V-line treatment too. So it depends on who you go to. I just know this cause I was looking to see what trends compare like in the US vs Korea.

This is very thorough. I have bookmarked it. It helps to see the process other people have gone through to get a better idea of what to expect. I always appreciate people going into detail like this too. Thanks for sharing! I will point people to this thread if they ask about the consultation process.

I think people get things confused because it is a foreign clinic. It is technically both. The thing that makes it an OMFS is that they do functional surgeries too. It isn't like it is a one or the other thing. Some plastic surgery clinics have OMFS options, others do not. Does that make sense?

I am talking about legit clinics, not ghost doctors. I don't want to confuse people. I was talking to someone on Facebook and she had been in contact with a few Korean clinics. She is trying to decide on where she wants to get her surgery done. It is her first time so she is being cautious and asking lots of questions. Well, one of the clinics stopped contacting her back. I don't want to say which clinic but it is a bigger one like View Plastic Surgery. It isn't some new, small, or not well known place. They just stopped all contact with her, stopped responded to her messages, aren't returning calls or anything. Now I am wondering if this happened because she is being too indecisive and they feel she is wasting their time? Has anyone here had this happen to them?

A friend of mine had to do this once and the clinic told her before she even did that her deposit is non-refundable if she cancels or changes dates.

I love the music, I don't fully understand the trends. I would probably be more up to date if I traveled more and had more free time to invest into the Korean fashion scene!

Oh that is a shame. I am on Instagram but I don't use it as much these days. I follow a fair bit of plastic surgeons and clinics as well as beauty trend accounts. If you look for Korean beauty trend accounts, you can probably find some that include plastic surgery pics of before and afters.

Even if you became friends with a local, you won't get local prices. I have looked into this. You pay the standard costs of foreigners because the surgeries are a bit different. A lot of doctors charge more because certain facial features require more work. Korean faces have softer features.

What does apgujeong aesthetic mean? Is this like Korean facial features and characteristics of the shapes of the eyes, nose, etc.? I have never heard of this before. I do agree about the filtered content. I noticed a lot of them have filters over them.

I noticed some clinics only do face work while others also offer body work like breast implants and lipo. Those tend to be larger clinics that offer both but you can also find some that only focus on face or body separately. I am just curious if it is better or not to find a clinic only for face work, or if it matters. Someone I was talking to online said I should only work with facial clinics, ones that specifically focus on anti-aging for what I am after.

Can I ask why she wants to look more Korean? And in what way? I know of a few clinics that might be a good match for her but I am just curious as to why someone would request such a thing. I think mixed women look beautiful, best of different worlds sort of thing.