TL PS reviews

[mn31515]

Wow, you don't have to stay the full 2 weeks for mouth stitch removal? Thanks for sharing your story, so detailed and helpful

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Part 3:

I don't want to say anything bad about the skill of Dr Kim himself because I am still swollen so cannot judge the results yet, but I do want to tell you all this so you know what to expect regarding their post op care and treatment of patients which I feel needs to be seriously addressed ASAP. I did mention before many times that I never cared about the post op care as long as the results are amazing but actually I think any clinic should in fact ensure a good level of post op care. This is something which is expected as we are the ones paying high prices for surgery. And having one nurse who doesn't speak any English (in a clinic which advertises to foreign patients) and is asleep half the night and not easily found is just not good enough. Hopefully one of the workers for TL who often lurk around in these forums will see this post and take action to improve the post op care because I have seen the results of various people who get surgery at TL and they are known to give amazing transformations, but I feel that this kind of post op pain and discomfort just is not acceptable in this day and age. With the technology and medicines we have available people should not have this kind of discomfort following an operation. Korea may be used to performing jaw contouring operations and more experienced at it than the West, but they still need to learn more about post op pain management from the western countries. Maybe Koreans are too quiet to speak out about this, or they feel it is just expected, but after experiencing similar operations in the west I can assure you that it doesn't have to be this way, in the west I have rarely had much pain at all following the actual operations.

Well that's all I'm going to write now. I am through with all this plastic surgery nonsense and this time stuck in Korea has almost killed me. I am glad to get out of here. I just hope that these operations I have done now will have given me the results I want when the swelling has completely gone down so I don't ever have to think about it again. I am really quite over Korea and the superficial mentality here, along with all the girls acting like babies trying to be 'cute'. It's quite embarrassing for me. But I am only saying that because I have had a stressful few days and am just desperate to get home ASAP, so please don't have a go at me for generalising or being harsh. The first time I came to Korea I found it great and got sucked in to the whole Kpop phenomenon. Now I just cringe at the thought. I am not going to post pics because what I want and see as looking good would be different to what other people see as looking good. I just wanted to write this so you know what to expect and are prepared. There are few full accounts of experiences from start to finish. Melissa was great through it all and is an amazing addition to TL. I am glad she was with me through it all. Dr Kim was also very calm and reasonable through the consultations. He seemed serious and quiet but he listened to what I wanted to say and seemed to be knowledgable on stuff like if I did this then that would happen etc..

I wish everyone success in their quest for whatever they are aiming for. As I am sure you all know already, make sure your surgeon knows exactly what you want and bring pictures as words don't work well trying to convey an image to someone else.

Another thing I found quite weird was the instructions I was told. For example I was told to wear ice packs for one month. I have had enough surgery to know it's not necessary to keep ice packs in for one month. You only keep it on for the fist 2-3 days following the operation. Also, when I was paying for the operation. After a lot of bargaining and we finally decided on a price. I counted out the money in front of me. Then Melissa took the money and walked out the room. She came back a minute later and said we were lacking one $50 bill. She said come with me and showed me on the cash counting machine that it was an odd number (and not an even number as it should have been based on the price we agreed). I felt a bit wary at this point because she had already walked out the room with my money and I had no way to prove no one had just taken one $50 bill during this time. But I hope no one would do that. I gave another $50 just so I could be done with it and secure the operation. Then the following day, Melissa came in and told me that the accountant had told her that I had underpaid by $500. I told Melissa I wouldn't discuss price on here so I won't say exactly how much it was, but let's say it was $?000. Meaning that it did round up to a full thousand figure. She was basically saying that I paid $?500. I know I would not have counter out 500 when sorting the payment because I counted out the dollar bills in thousands, not in half thousands. I told her to check cctv because it would show me counting out in thousands on the cctv camera. She kept saying it was her mistake that she didn't add it up right, but I told her that was bull**** because I know I counted out the exact amount in thousands and would not have counted out dollar bills only adding up to $500. I hope I made myself clear here. Basically she said, either way I don't have to pay the amount I apparently underpaid. I was quite pissed off at this point because I know I paid the exact full amount we agreed on, and I felt maybe the accountant was trying to pull a fast one over me and make me pay an extra $500. But Melissa kept saying don't worry about it anyway. Still concerned me abit and I felt it was important to mention it here with you guys. Just be sure no one leaves the room with your money and don't let anyone tell you that you have underpaid if you have already counted it up yourself and are sure you haven't.

I wrote this all on day 5. Now I am about day 12 or something and have left Korea. I have some updates I want to mention. I went back to see the doctor (first time I saw Dr since the operation day). He showed me the X-ray and basically that was it. Also had a deswelling treatment and a deswelling injection. From what I see for the most part I am quite happy with the result. Not perfect but it looks pretty much what I wanted. I also was speaking with Melissa on my last day and I told her thanks to her everything went smoothly but I did think that the post op care of TL needs to be seriously improved. I told her it wasn't good not having nurses who speak English overnight, and that she was not easily able to be found since she was sleeping in some back room. She explained to me in TL they usually have one nurse per two patients for overnight stays. But this isn't really an acceptable excuse.

For the most part I am doing well now. I have dissolvable stitches in my mouth and my mouth is still sore but it seems to be deswelling daily still.

I won't be posting pics or lurking around these forums much in the future but I wanted to give my review to help others in some way. TL were very good at picking me up and taking me to airport and for follow up appointments too actually which I never got with other clinics. I am happy with how it went, despite the awful post op care. Let's hope my results will be to my satisfaction when all the swelling has gone away.

Best of luck to you all

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[lemissybaby]

Im going to TL next month (in 2.5 weeks time).
zygoma reduction. so i believe there will be CT scans. how long is the waiting time for CT scans?
for those who went for surgeries there, after consultation did they do the surgery immediately?
coz thats what the email told me, consultation then go surgery.
But some other clinics i believe they will take blood test n wait for 1-2 hrs for the blood test report before proceed with surgery.
in TL do they take any blood tests and wait for results before surgery?

 

[lemissybaby]

erer232 said: ↑

I underwent zygoma reduction and chin reduction at TL, it has been 4 months now still have some minor swelling but I love the result. Hope that I can share some photos oneday

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Im going to TL next month (in 2.5 weeks time).
zygoma reduction. so i believe there will be CT scans. how long is the waiting time for CT scans?
for those who went for surgeries there, after consultation did they do the surgery immediately?
coz thats what the email told me, consultation then go surgery.
But some other clinics i believe they will take blood test n wait for 1-2 hrs for the blood test report before proceed with surgery.
in TL do they take any blood tests and wait for results before surgery?

 

[jqueen]

I m gg in few weeks time. Planning to do facelift, V-line, eye pitosis. What’s the expected pricing?
Tks
My Kakao ID : jqueen

 

[kokobop]

have any of you guys done rhinoplasty there? i'm planning to do quick zygoma but i wanna do rhinoplasty at april 31st. i'm just worried about going under anesthesia twice..

 

[phoai]

kokobop said: ↑

have any of you guys done rhinoplasty there? i'm planning to do quick zygoma but i wanna do rhinoplasty at april 31st. i'm just worried about going under anesthesia twice..

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I did my nose job at TL and the result is good. About the anesthesia, If you don't have to break bones they will probably recommend sedation,, as far as I know, you better ask!

 

[gantz]

phoai said: ↑

I did my nose job at TL and the result is good. About the anesthesia, If you don't have to break bones they will probably recommend sedation,, as far as I know, you better ask!

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Is that you on the avatar?

 

[kokobop]

phoai said: ↑

I did my nose job at TL and the result is good. About the anesthesia, If you don't have to break bones they will probably recommend sedation,, as far as I know, you better ask!

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ooo~ can i ask for the cost for ur rhinoplasty and what procedures u got done?

 

[phoai]

kokobop said: ↑

ooo~ can i ask for the cost for ur rhinoplasty and what procedures u got done?

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It was revisional surgery so it was way more expensive then the normal rhino Also I can't remember the price of rhinoplasty becuase I paid with my v-line sry

 

[krod2017]

This was my nose 3 months post op after I went to tlps

 

[krod2017]

I asked for long, tall and sharp. Welp, that's what I got

 

[riickhola]

I had facial contouring (chin/jaw) and rhinoplasty done at TLPS some weeks ago.

The facial contouring is a complete success to me.
I'm more concern about my nose, my current nose itself looks better than before, but my tip looks high and pointy and my nostrils look small and too pushed up. I told and warn the Doctor not to make my nostril too small, i even told him to consider not having alar reduction but the doctor told me my nostril won't be too small.

I know this is too early as there are still a lot of swelling remaining and the tip shape could change, but I'd like to know for those who had rhino,
did you guys had the same concern for the tip and nostrils ?
And with time did the tip drop down, even with cartilage struct graft and tip cartilage added ? Because my tip is hard by touching it.
And for the nostril, did it get more rounded and less pushed up ?

 

[phoai]

riickhola said: ↑

I had facial contouring (chin/jaw) and rhinoplasty done at TLPS some weeks ago.

The facial contouring is a complete success to me.
I'm more concern about my nose, my current nose itself looks better than before, but my tip looks high and pointy and my nostrils look small and too pushed up. I told and warn the Doctor not to make my nostril too small, i even told him to consider not having alar reduction but the doctor told me my nostril won't be too small.

I know this is too early as there are still a lot of swelling remaining and the tip shape could change, but I'd like to know for those who had rhino,
did you guys had the same concern for the tip and nostrils ?
And with time did the tip drop down, even with cartilage struct graft and tip cartilage added ? Because my tip is hard by touching it.
And for the nostril, did it get more rounded and less pushed up ?

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I did revision rhino 2years ago at TL, and mine was bit pointy at first too. In my case it started to look betther after 3-4m.

 

[krod2017]

riickhola said: ↑

I had facial contouring (chin/jaw) and rhinoplasty done at TLPS some weeks ago.

The facial contouring is a complete success to me.
I'm more concern about my nose, my current nose itself looks better than before, but my tip looks high and pointy and my nostrils look small and too pushed up. I told and warn the Doctor not to make my nostril too small, i even told him to consider not having alar reduction but the doctor told me my nostril won't be too small.

I know this is too early as there are still a lot of swelling remaining and the tip shape could change, but I'd like to know for those who had rhino,
did you guys had the same concern for the tip and nostrils ?
And with time did the tip drop down, even with cartilage struct graft and tip cartilage added ? Because my tip is hard by touching it.
And for the nostril, did it get more rounded and less pushed up ?

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this was my nose 3 moths after tl.

 

[ching888]

any latest review about TLPS? I'm going there in June or July...