[Aeton TV] What Is Aeton’s Surgery-Time “Time Free” System?

“So… what time am I starting surgery?”

People who come in for consultations are often very curious about surgery times.

Of course, it makes sense to want to know when your surgery will happen.

However, Aeton’s position is that we do not base decisions on the importance of the surgery start time or on how long the surgery takes.

I won’t leave this operating room until I can achieve the best possible result for this patient.

That is a line from a book by a U.S. rhinoplasty specialist, and it is a quote I really like as well.

Once surgery begins, the time needed must be used until the operation is completed perfectly.

Some doctors are very meticulous and can produce good results while spending just one hour in surgery,

while

some doctors may be careless and finish in 10 minutes,

so

I am saying that using surgery time as the 기준 is not a good idea.

For surgery time, I use a Time Free system.

Only the time for the first surgery is fixed. With no set time, the next surgery is prepared and started as soon as the previous one ends.

Think of it like a restaurant with “closed when ingredients run out” —it is a way to secure enough time for each patient’s needs.

For example, in the case of non-incisional double eyelid surgery, which has one of the shortest surgery times, the operation takes 15 minutes.

But

🕗 8:00 AM Arrival at the hospital Instructions on precautions Completion of consent forms Change of clothes, face washing, facial disinfection Preparation of surgical instruments

🕘 9:00 AM Eye design Local anesthetic application Actual surgery and finishing

🕙 10:00 AM Recovery room

In this way, if the patient comes at 8:00, a 15-minute surgery is performed, and the finishing time would be around 10:30, or around 11:00 in the case of sedation anesthesia.

Let me give another example of a different surgery.

In the case of a first-time nose surgery, the plan is already in place, and if the surgery proceeds according to that plan, unusual situations occurring in the middle are rare.

However, revision surgery is different.

Revision surgery requires resolving every situation.

When there are many difficult surgeries, time becomes less meaningful, so even if the estimated surgery time was 2 hours, there are cases where it actually ends up taking 4 hours. We cannot rush to finish the current patient’s surgery just because another patient is scheduled next.

If you want surgery without waiting, I recommend booking the first time slot.

However, because there are many people booking the first time slot, instead of waiting for the surgery start time, you will end up waiting for the surgery date itself.

Even though there may be some inconvenience, we continue the Time Free system so that we can focus entirely on each surgery and aim for the highest level of satisfaction.

We ask for your kind understanding, and we promise to do our best in every surgery, regardless of time.