Questions for your first consultation
A practical list to help you understand your options before making a decision.
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Practical reading for an informed conversation, from choosing your questions to planning a visit to Seoul.
Planning your visit to Seoul
Coordinate your visit around the clinical plan, with time for questions and follow-up.
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Understanding treatment categories
Volume, muscle activity, skin quality and tissue laxity are different starting points.
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Fillers and Collagen Stimulators: What the Material Decides
Patients say filler for any injection that adds volume, but there are two families and the material decides most of what follows: when the effect appears, whether it can be undone, and what can go wrong.
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Thread, Ultrasound or Radiofrequency: How Lifting Methods Differ
Lifting is one word for procedures that work by different mechanisms. This guide separates thread lifting, ultrasound and radiofrequency by what each moves or heats, what each cannot change, and the risks that belong to each.
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Before Eye Surgery: What the Examination Separates and What to Bring
A double eyelid, a wider eye and a less tired look are requests, not diagnoses. Here is what an eye surgery consultation actually examines, how eye-opening strength differs from eyelid shape, and what to bring so the visit is useful.
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When a Consultation Ends With "Not Now"
Sometimes the answer at a consultation is to wait, or not to operate at all. It usually comes down to three things: timing, the current state of the tissue, and whether the change you want is something the procedure actually addresses. Here is what sits behind that answer.
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After Eyelid Surgery: The First Two Weeks and When to Fly Home
Swelling tends to build over the first few days, stitches usually come out within the first week depending on the method, and bruising fades through the second week. When you can fly depends on that pattern and on your surgeon's check. Here is the usual shape of it, and what to arrange before you book.
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Swan-Neck Surgery: What It Is, Who It Suits, and the First Week
Swan-neck surgery removes fat under the chin in two layers and tightens a loose neck muscle in the same operation, through small openings and an incision of about 1 to 2 cm under the chin. Here is how fat and muscle are told apart, how sedation is monitored, and what the first week looks like.
Read the guideDouble Chin: Liposuction Alone or Swan-Neck Surgery? How It Is Checked
Liposuction removes fat, so it can be enough when a double chin is mainly fat under the skin, but it does not tighten a loose neck muscle. Here is how fat, muscle and skin are checked at consultation, what the ultrasound check shows and what it does not, and what to ask.
Read the guideSwan-Neck Surgery: The Incision, Scar Care and Your Flight Home
Swan-neck surgery combines liposuction, removal of the deeper fat behind the neck muscle and tightening of that muscle, which needs an incision of about 1 to 2 cm under the chin. Here is what is known about the scar, how the incision is cared for, and how to fit day-5 stitch removal around your flight home.
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