While Consulting About Revision Facial Contouring Surgery

  Consultations about revision facial contouring surgery are generally very different from consultations with people who come to a plastic surgery clinic.

If ordinary consultations with people who come with great expectations and hope feel pleasant and exciting, consultations with people who come with concerns about revision surgery can sometimes feel heartbreaking and sometimes upsetting from the doctor’s perspective. In addition, for those considering revision surgery, the trust relationship with the doctor who performed the initial consultation and surgery has already been broken during the previous surgical process, so in consultations with any other doctor, their emotional walls and self-defense mechanisms are already strong.

Recently, perhaps because awareness of facial contouring surgery has become overly widespread and it is understood as a simple procedure, there have been more and more cases where people come to me for consultation after going through several plastic surgery clinics due to unexpected unfortunate results after facial contouring surgery.

Perhaps because there is a growing tendency to think too lightly about the process of changing the shape of the facial bones, many people make overly impulsive decisions when first deciding on surgery, or they make the mistake of choosing a clinic by emphasizing as advantages the parts that can be tailored to their situation, such as surgery time or surgery cost.

Surgery to improve facial contours is not something that needs to be done quickly in a race against time, nor is it a procedure that can guarantee good results simply by being performed in 10 to 20 minutes.

Nevertheless, many people end up crossing a bridge from which they can never return, with the expectation that the shape of their facial bones can be changed in 10 to 20 minutes under simple sedation anesthesia.

Surgery that changes the shape of facial bones is a process of operating on bone surrounded by muscles, fat, skin, and other tissues in a limited field of view so that scars are not visible, and even for a surgeon with extensive experience, it requires concentration and care.

In addition, depending on the case, if the first surgery has damaged the facial bones too much, there may be situations where, even with revision surgery, one has already gone down a path of no return.

These days, there is something I always make sure to tell people when consulting with them for the first time about facial contouring surgery.

"If there is any concern that surgery cost and surgery time may take up the largest part of your decision, it would be wiser to invest that cost and time elsewhere rather than in facial surgery."