best plastic surgery clinics in Korea

[london_chick]

shane77 said: ↑

Going to do day three and four together since my swelling peak on the third days, so wasn't in the right mood to write anything. Well the third day were pretty much the same as the first and second day of surgery. My face is so swollen on one side that it swell shut my right eye. Had to keep applying ice pace to subdue the swelling and preventing it from getting worse. I was still wearing day one bandages on the third day, so all the bandages, tapes and gauges were pretty much worn out from just daily wear and tear. My face were so out of proportion due to the heavy swelling on one side of my face. So i made it a priority to have an ice pack on my face for as long as i am awake which wasn't easy since i go through cold pack faster then i can prep them. A couple of japanese patient from another room came and borrow a few of our ice pack. Seeing how how swollen their face is compare to our, we just couldn't say no. Its Time like this that you wish you could just stick your head inside a freezer. Thing weren't that gingerly either for my room mate ginger candy who spend most of the day in bed. The only up side about it was having dr shin paying me a visit. Seeing his face give me a sense of assurance that everything is going to be A ok. He spend a good 5 minute with me checking on my condition. He reassure me that everything went really well and that he is very please with the result. I didn't notice it when i had a gauge tape underneath my nose, but i had i had it removed, i can see one side of my alar were lift higher than the other. I brought this concern to dr shin and in his traditional jargon fashion explain to me the technical detail of its occurrence. I was too steam from the medication i took to pay much attention to his explanation. I just stood there and nodded the entire time. I feel so tempted though to take a sneak peak under the cast to have a look at my new nose. Oh how easy would that be. A couple of peel here and a couple lift there, and the cast would come right off. But i knew due to my swelling, the nose wouldn't right at this point in time. So i have to hold back any urges to do so. But its so hard to do since its just sitting there in the middle of your face tempting me to do it. But no way. Beside the cast is coming off in a few days anyway, but why ruin the big unveil. I weren't anticipating much Swelling to occur around the mid face. But i was so wrong to assume that. The upper part of my face is so swollen to the point that it swell my right eyes shut. Imagining waking up and not not being able to see through one side of it cause it has been swell shut. Really scary feeling. So on the fourth day when i went into my treatment, the nurse took notice on how much swelling i was experiencing in the right eye that they had to bring in a specialist to removed the stitches that the nurses couldn't do. But after the stitches has been removed, the swelling subsided a little. Another parting gesture were dr shin visit. He heard that i was having treatment today and he made it a priority to come and see me, even it were just for a few second. So two days in a roll i get to met meet with dr shin. Now thats what i call caring for your patient. After today treatment, i left with fresh bandages and what seem like a circular silicone dish removed from each side of my nostril, and a new butt patch. I was told to keep up with the ice pack treatment and do a lot of walking. Since the hall way of BK is no where as large as ID, walking the hall just doesn't make any sense to me. Plus i was really sick and tired of porridges, so i dawn on my black mask and head out in public for the first time since having my surgery. I look decent enough on the 4th day not to draw too much attention walking down the street of seoul. But occasionally i do catch a few glimpse and stare which is fine with me. To be honest, the swelling isn't as bad if you compare them to the second or first day. But i wouldn't say i look normal. Just decent enough for people to mind their own business. I walk all the way to the 7/11 store and all the back to the clinic without attracting too much attention. In fact. I went there twice. I figure its a good exercise then walking the hall of bk recovery room. I didn't buy a whole bunch of things as i thought i would. Just the essential. I figure that way it would give me a good reason to walk around and about. I guess thats pretty much i have to say about the last two days. Did meet up with vivi_33 and two other girl from the forum. So that was a nice throw in. Plus anna came up to our room to pay us a visit. Which was also pretty cool. Right now its 11:42 pm in the evening. Ginger candy is catching some Zzz. And i am still holding and i still have an ice ice pack glue to my face. So overall a pretty unexcited day in my opinion.

Be back with more update soon.

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Well done for being strong shane and yes, resist the temptation to have a sneak under that mask!

 

[wish23]

U guys r so brave!!!

 

[wish23]

Speedy recovery guys !! I wish I have the courage to do so...

 

[eightbelow]

shane77 said: ↑

Going to do day three and four together since my swelling peak on the third days, so wasn't in the right mood to write anything. Well the third day were pretty much the same as the first and second day of surgery. My face is so swollen on one side that it swell shut my right eye. Had to keep applying ice pace to subdue the swelling and preventing it from getting worse. I was still wearing day one bandages on the third day, so all the bandages, tapes and gauges were pretty much worn out from just daily wear and tear. My face were so out of proportion due to the heavy swelling on one side of my face. So i made it a priority to have an ice pack on my face for as long as i am awake which wasn't easy since i go through cold pack faster then i can prep them. A couple of japanese patient from another room came and borrow a few of our ice pack. Seeing how how swollen their face is compare to our, we just couldn't say no. Its Time like this that you wish you could just stick your head inside a freezer. Thing weren't that gingerly either for my room mate ginger candy who spend most of the day in bed. The only up side about it was having dr shin paying me a visit. Seeing his face give me a sense of assurance that everything is going to be A ok. He spend a good 5 minute with me checking on my condition. He reassure me that everything went really well and that he is very please with the result. I didn't notice it when i had a gauge tape underneath my nose, but i had i had it removed, i can see one side of my alar were lift higher than the other. I brought this concern to dr shin and in his traditional jargon fashion explain to me the technical detail of its occurrence. I was too steam from the medication i took to pay much attention to his explanation. I just stood there and nodded the entire time. I feel so tempted though to take a sneak peak under the cast to have a look at my new nose. Oh how easy would that be. A couple of peel here and a couple lift there, and the cast would come right off. But i knew due to my swelling, the nose wouldn't right at this point in time. So i have to hold back any urges to do so. But its so hard to do since its just sitting there in the middle of your face tempting me to do it. But no way. Beside the cast is coming off in a few days anyway, but why ruin the big unveil. I weren't anticipating much Swelling to occur around the mid face. But i was so wrong to assume that. The upper part of my face is so swollen to the point that it swell my right eyes shut. Imagining waking up and not not being able to see through one side of it cause it has been swell shut. Really scary feeling. So on the fourth day when i went into my treatment, the nurse took notice on how much swelling i was experiencing in the right eye that they had to bring in a specialist to removed the stitches that the nurses couldn't do. But after the stitches has been removed, the swelling subsided a little. Another parting gesture were dr shin visit. He heard that i was having treatment today and he made it a priority to come and see me, even it were just for a few second. So two days in a roll i get to met meet with dr shin. Now thats what i call caring for your patient. After today treatment, i left with fresh bandages and what seem like a circular silicone dish removed from each side of my nostril, and a new butt patch. I was told to keep up with the ice pack treatment and do a lot of walking. Since the hall way of BK is no where as large as ID, walking the hall just doesn't make any sense to me. Plus i was really sick and tired of porridges, so i dawn on my black mask and head out in public for the first time since having my surgery. I look decent enough on the 4th day not to draw too much attention walking down the street of seoul. But occasionally i do catch a few glimpse and stare which is fine with me. To be honest, the swelling isn't as bad if you compare them to the second or first day. But i wouldn't say i look normal. Just decent enough for people to mind their own business. I walk all the way to the 7/11 store and all the back to the clinic without attracting too much attention. In fact. I went there twice. I figure its a good exercise then walking the hall of bk recovery room. I didn't buy a whole bunch of things as i thought i would. Just the essential. I figure that way it would give me a good reason to walk around and about. I guess thats pretty much i have to say about the last two days. Did meet up with vivi_33 and two other girl from the forum. So that was a nice throw in. Plus anna came up to our room to pay us a visit. Which was also pretty cool. Right now its 11:42 pm in the evening. Ginger candy is catching some Zzz. And i am still holding and i still have an ice ice pack glue to my face. So overall a pretty unexcited day in my opinion.

Be back with more update soon.

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Cheer up Shane. U are just one throw from your perfect face

*I cross my fingers for mine surgery....

 

[justkieting]

dan4me said: ↑

Well, I have no idea how fast BK will respond to your email. lol but they were not that slow to me. Yes you get to choose the surgeon, and I'm not really sure if it was charged at higher end because he was a director. You might want to ask those questions to BK directly. Sorry for not being too helpful.

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Hi Dan4me,

It's great to hear that you had a wonderful experience having the surgery with Dr. Hong at BK dong yang. I will be going to Korea in 2 weeks, but as of now I still don't know which doctor is the best. If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could send me some before and after pictures of your rhinplasty surgery to [email protected] Thank you so much!

 

[justkieting]

Hi guys,

For those of you who have had rhinoplasty surgery, could you please recommend some great doctors for me? Please also include the clinics that they're from. Thank you!

 

[justkieting]

Hi guys,

I am a 24 year old asian male from California. I will be going to Korea (gangnam-gu) with another friend of mine (26 year old asian male). Please let me know if any of you will be in the same area during that time! Thanks!

 

[gingercandy]

Rise and shine

Day 5 after surgery I'm going for follow up in an hour time maybe i get to see my nose this time. I hope I'm all right on track of healing road, my lid still can't close together as the swelling is moving down my face I felt more uncomfortable pian in gum compare to the last few days,last night was the worst I get pain in the gum and neck so I tried to sleep without the compression mask but didn't improved the discomfortable, as a matter of fact sleeping without the compression mask I felt like I have to put in extra effort the hold my chin up. Then the new girl that just came in and stay next door was in and out of her room constantly , she didn't bother to hold the door while closing it but let it slam shut every time ....... hell ppl in other room are tying to get some rest, what a b@?:*! even while I'm writing this she already did it a few time!!!

I was in bed pretty much ,didn't really talk much to Shane or anybody because the medicine make me sleepy every time I took it beside the pain in the jaw just make u want to sleep them away. Last night felt really bad , I was in so much pain woke up a few time to take out the mask ,put on the mask ,woke up by the slamming door , woke up by the dry thoat even woke up to tell Shane to shut down the tv volume ( sorry bro for being snappy)

Let just wish that today a better day, I can still see a lot of swelling on both cheek, gum felt very tender, nagging pain in the jaw , eating still restricted only liquid food ,I'm so jealous the person next to me can munch down cake and have bento for dinner all I can eat was sucky liquid food can't wait to eat BBQ chicken !! Which we miss out on my last dinner before surgery. I bet Shane can still have it at this moment judging from the way he can chew down anything he like. Arrrrr ....... I must recover soon. Chicken I'm coming to get you!

Have a nice weekend folks!

 

[shane77]

London_chick said:

Well done for being strong shane and yes, resist the temptation to have a sneak under that mask!

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It was definitely hard to resist those temptation, especially when my nose start to itch, i just want to rip the cast off to scratch those itches. I guess i was spoil from previous nose surgery i had where i took a peek each time just to see how well (or bad) the nose turn out. But i figure since this would be last rhino, why jinx it. It seem like every time i took a peek at my nose before the cast officially comes off, i needed revision. So i'm going to break tradition just this one time

 

[for-u-n-me]

shane77 said:

It was definitely hard to resist those temptation, especially when my nose start to itch, i just want to rip the cast off to scratch those itches. I guess i was spoil from previous nose surgery i had where i took a peek each time just to see how well (or bad) the nose turn out. But i figure since this would be last rhino, why jinx it. It seem like every time i took a peek at my nose before the cast officially comes off, i needed revision. So i'm going to break tradition just this one time

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Hahaaaa... U must bear for the curiosity ,btw hang on bro u will be like Korean celebrity like dr hong told u

And can't wait ur new face

 

[tooney]

gingerCandy said: ↑

Hi everyone!

I am back in action! Well not that I was bedridden the last few days, it's just that I didn't manage to get the password for the Internet on the patient ward. To those well wishes I appreciated very much. To Shane thank you for being there when they wheel me out! The first instant I woke up , I can only said OMG OMG ! It's done ! This is it! Have to be good ,I'm still crossing my finger. On the day before they send me off to the op room I see Dr hong for one more time to confirm the op he was going to perform , this time he draw on my face instead of on the paper lol .... So the v line , rhino , chin and buccal fat remove , reuse the fat for paranasal and below the cheek fat graft. Than I finally decided on the forehead fat graft which already agreed that no extra charges for that so when Dr Hong ask me to lift up my top to expose my tummy he was shaking his head because that the best fat for grafting however I don't have to spare. Then we decided on the saddleback on both tights ( bonus because I was just not happy with that small amount of fat and was thinking about lipo it off) hehehe ...... More good deal to come when he look at my eye and said it will look better to remove some fat on both eyelid ( which me and Shane had spoke about the day before but I was thinking to get it done next time) So my designer just put two dot on the eyelid and complete his project !!! I can't stressed how much I love this Dr ,he gave me the feeling he care how close to perfect not the money. Because the eyelid fat removeal was in prompt to we never discuss before but we both know it will do so much better with it gone. Thats another good will from him and not billing on that. Like everybody waking up from GA suck! But I think ppl at BK have a lot easier compare to ID just like what Shane said to let us sleep it off is a bliss , I ask water once but was not time to have them by the time I pass 4hours the nurse just came in with the water. Then the rest of night was sleep sleep sleep because my head was heavrily bandage with 2 tubes coming out. Second day in the morning Dr Hong came into the room hold my hand and said everything went well , so nice to see the big bright smile on his face after lunch I was send to clear up my stitches b4 they move me to patient room on the floor above... The nurses start with cleaning the gum and nose ........ Yes I see it coming .... They are fiddling with the drainage tubes now.... next moment one of the nurse hold me on the shoulder and ask me to be relax while other slowly pull out the tube. After the first come out I was telling myself don't like the feeling although is bearable and then came the second one. Not really painful feel like a pinch and it's over.

Swelling ( important topic on most of the patient mind)

Day 1 can't really time because the bandage was so thick.
Day 2 swell up quite a fair bit, I kind of expect it and just before op Dr said a lot of ppl get depress so he prep me and ask me to focus on the achievable result.
Day 3 swelling more than day two but I'm positive ..... Walk up and down the corridor constant icing the face. Two of the fourmer drop by to visit me and shane and she already said my eye look nice.
Day 4 I can tell the swell going down but still icing them , I even took my time washing
my hair ( although the nurse said I can only do it after stiches on the nose removed) I can't stand it anymore!! But I was really careful not to wet at all. Anna the consultant drop by in the afternoon to visit Shane and me , even she said that I'm doing good because there is not much bruised and the swell is not too bad.

Tomorrow I am going for my third follow up i think will get to see my nose Without the cas... So excitied !

Only complaint is liquid food suck! Yuck can't have them anymore !
Btw we are given a list with do and don't something interesting, we are tell to avoid protien reach drink or food because it might decay the stitches.

Thank for reading hope all those going to have surgery will benefit them!

Cheers!

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Hi GingerCandy... glad your surgeries went well.. hopefully the swell will go down in no time keep those icepacks handy

 

[shane77]

for u n me said:

Hahaaaa... U must bear for the curiosity ,btw hang on bro u will be like Korean celebrity like dr hong told u

And can't wait ur new face

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Dr shin is my surgeon. Not hong ginger candy did her with hong.

 

[tooney]

shane77 said: ↑

Dr shin is my surgeon. Not hong ginger candy did her with hong.

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How does your "black mask" look like? am curious

 

[for-u-n-me]

shane77 said:

Dr shin is my surgeon. Not hong ginger candy did her with hong.

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Oh yes dr shin,I am wrong

 

[sugary-sweetz]

hi all, I'm considering to have a nose job and a breast augmentation in bk clinic this coming september. My in-laws had an eyelid surgery in top class clinic (but they don't speak any english). Can you guys recommend which clinic I should go for the best results. Or if you had surgery similar to what I have in mind will you please send me you before and after pictures. I really appreciate it. thank you so much.