jillyqueen Posted April 5, 2014 Posted April 5, 2014 Hi Chloe may i know the name of the surgeon who worked on you? I will be going for the surgery in June. However, despite my requests for a consultant doctor, I was assigned to a doctor that was not shown as part of their medical team online. Am quite worried. Have you heard of this doctor: Jo Min Su?
milktoki Posted April 5, 2014 Posted April 5, 2014 Hydrolysis, thank you so so so much for the tip. You are truly a blessing. Ok so I went to whatclinic.com's Grand Clinic's page and this is what it read where you posted your review: "Grand Plastic Surgery has chosen not to publish this review text. The score of the review is included in the average ratings above." WhatClinic.com should be notified of this! That is so dishonest because they are only picking positive reviews and this is misleading to prospective patients. This is highly unethical and unprofessional of Grand. My surgeon Lee Hee Moon did not work at Grand. I had my revision with him and it was highly unsatisfactory as I cannot close my eyes. The surgeon who performed lateral canthoplasty at Wonjin moved to Grand and his name is Dr. Huh Chul. He is listed on the Grand Clinic English page under medical staff. Would you be able to email me at [email protected] so we can talk about all this further?
milktoki Posted April 5, 2014 Posted April 5, 2014 Please please please, whatever you do, do NOT go to Wonjin. This is exactly what happened to me. They placed me with an inexperienced doctor and my eyes were completely disfigured. Please read my story a few pages back. You have every right to be worried. Trust you gut instinct and know that you shouldn't have your surgery there. Don't be like me and live with regret and disappointment everyday. Wonjin, along with Grand Clinic, and several others are factory clinics. Their doctors are typically inexperienced and they come and go! The doctor who destroyed my eyes now works at Grand so he can do the same to others. Feel free to email me at [email protected] to discuss this all further. Do not make the mistake that I did. I wish everyday that I could turn back time and undo this mess.
milktoki Posted April 5, 2014 Posted April 5, 2014 I actually don't recommend Sky Kim. Also, there was another consultant named Chloe...so that post is highly suspicious to me. Anyway, Sky and some of the other consultants were the ones who lied to me and told me that the surgeon who worked on me was an eye specialist. I researched after the surgery and turns out he was far from an eye specialist. He "specialized" in tummy tucks and breast reconstruction. Who knows, I may have been the first eye patient for him. Wonjin clinic has such a high turnover rate of surgeons, I am surprised that any of the staff really knows the surgeons names even. Bottom line is is that Wonjin Clinic is not to be trusted. They are dishonest and will say anything to have your business because of how competitive the Korean plastic surgery industry is. They will say "yes" to anything as long as they get you on their operating table. I mean someone naive is going to have to pay for their glitzy advertising, countless foreign coordinators, their fresh out of school surgeons' fixed salaries, and fancy skyrise building, right?
ladybugz Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 Milktoki, The poster Chloe is NOT Chloe Y., the former marketing manager (who no longer even works for Wonjin). Google her if you don't believe me -- that Chloe left in late 2013 for another clinic. More than one person can be named Chloe... I can vouch for this poster, as we'd talked a lot before going to Wonjin. I did not have a good experience with my eyelid surgeon at Wonjin either, but I still don't think you can say the clinic as a whole sucks... The rhinoplasty surgeon was wonderful. I do think they have quality control issues due to how large it is, but it's just such a mixed bag with so many surgeons. I do think their method of consulting with a salesperson and then a doctor is very poor, though. I paid for ptosis correction and did not get it. BTW, if you think your consultant is bad (btw, it is against the forum rules to write out their full names, so I edited my post), I had an older consultant who was 10x worse. She was very snarky and basically intimidated me into doing my eyes even though I was thinking about backing out. When I told her I was fine with my eyes, she snickered and said, "Then why do you wear so much makeup?" To the person who already paid a deposit: If you don't feel comfortable, LEAVE. Forget the $$. Do not get bullied into anything. It's your health and your face we're talking about. Trust your instincts.
jillyqueen Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 It seems that the term "consultant" does not refer to a medical doctor in Seoul. Think there was a miscommunication between me and Wonjin. Overall i would like to say that that i was treated well. I was not pressured in any way to get any additional procedure done. I was also given a free acne treatment package after the surgery, because the so called "consultant" observed that i had a zit.
jillyqueen Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 Yes. They gave me the package after i had paid the deposit. It is scheduled 2 weeks after the op date. Question:, they said that i will not feel any pain during the procedure. As they explained i will be put to sleep before the anaesthesia injection. I know i will wake up after 5 mins.. Did u feel pain during the procedure? My friend who did hers said that it was not exactly "pain" but she could feel the doc working
jillyqueen Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 A korean fried of mine has kindly agreed to look through the korean forum on Naver to identify the local people's sentiments about, as well as help identify the "eye specialists"
ladybugz Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 Honestly? Yes. They knocked me out in the beginning (where I had a nightmare that I was dying), revived me in the middle (just for the most painful part... wtf?) and then knocked me out again for the nose job (which was painless b/c I was fully asleep with no dreams or nightmares). I hated the process, especially compared to my primary eyelid surgery in America (where it was all local anesthesia, no sedation, and completely painless... I recovered in 5-7 days vs. the 2-3 months after Korea). However, to their credit, I scarred horribly after my American surgery and did not scar at all after my Korean surgery. So maybe their more painful technique helped somehow. Their technique of tiny stitches (vs. my American doctor's big, loopy ones) seemed to make a difference, too.
jillyqueen Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 I see i will just pray that my anaesthesia does not wear off. And mine is partial incision+ epi (remove Mongolian fold) not the full incision one. Was yours full or partial incision?
ladybugz Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Full, and yes, by injection. They purposely revive you because they want you to open and shut your eyes to check for symmetry. So, there's no getting around it.
jillyqueen Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Sorry it turns out he was listed as part of the medical team on their korean website, but their english website was not updated. I can read korean so i managed to locate him. Overreacted
jillyqueen Posted April 8, 2014 Posted April 8, 2014 Hi was yours partial incision or totally non incision. Cause actually the consultant recommended that I do full incision too, but like u, I did not want to take the risk. Am doing partial incision to remove some fat.
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