Criteria for Choosing a Good Hospital for Under-Eye Fat Repositioning Surgery #Dr. Shin Jong-in

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In this post, we will look at how to choose a hospital that is good at under-eye fat repositioning surgery, with insights from Dr. Shin Jong-in, a master in under-eye fat repositioning. Many patients want to meet Dr. Shin Jong-in. Let’s hear his thoughts, with his gentle charisma, honest and straightforward consultations, and his prioritization of patient safety above all else.

Even 10 years ago, there were not many hospitals that performed a surgery called "under-eye fat repositioning." At that time, only a few doctors who could quietly run small clinics on their own were performing fat repositioning surgery. It was not yet widespread as it is now.

But these days, if you look at plastic surgery clinics, there is almost no clinic without a section on under-eye fat correction surgery. It has become a widely known procedure. However, because this procedure became known later than more common surgeries such as double eyelid surgery or nose surgery, there are still many areas where people are not yet familiar with it.

To become highly skilled in any field, you go through a process where experience builds up and builds up until it is complete. If there are 10 plastic surgeons, related procedures are still not something everyone can comfortably perform. In other words, under-eye fat repositioning surgery is not an easy procedure.

Nevertheless, the popularity of the procedure is very high.

For this reason, in hospitals that lack the skill and experience for fat repositioning surgery, the fat is removed and then patients are told that it was repositioning. How can patients tell the difference?

Criteria for Choosing a Hospital That Is Good at Under-Eye Fat Repositioning

Is under-eye fat repositioning simple enough that you can have it done at any hospital?

Of course not. As mentioned above, this field is still a procedure that is not yet familiar even to plastic surgeons. To briefly share a past story, about 10 years ago, a patient who had undergone surgery at a dermatology clinic that claimed to perform the procedure very often and had even published papers overseas came to our clinic for a revision surgery (performed by Dr. Shin Jong-in).

When examining the condition, the under-eye area was deeply sunken, and the patient had come in with a side effect called "ectropion," where the eyelid position had dropped downward. Because it was a complication, Dr. Shin called that clinic to get the exact details and spoke with them. First, he asked, "Did you perform under-eye fat repositioning surgery?" and the clinic answered that they had performed repositioning. Then he asked again, "How did you fixate the under-eye fat while repositioning it?" The doctor there replied, "That part cannot be fixed, so fixation was not possible." Our clinic found this answer very puzzling.

What fat repositioning surgery means is moving the fat and then securing it in the moved position, but saying they repositioned it and could not fix it in place is effectively the same as saying it was not repositioning at all. Through cases like this, we learned from experience 10 years ago that not every place claiming to perform this procedure does it properly.

The patient believed it had been repositioning, but in fact it had not been proper repositioning.

If you are considering under-eye fat correction,

you should carefully examine the hospital's

"expertise" in this area.

Among hospitals that perform under-eye fat correction, there are quite a few that are not run by plastic surgery specialists. To specialize in plastic surgery, you need years of training and many clinical experiences regarding facial anatomy and surgical techniques, and even then, related procedures are not easy.

Accordingly, I recommend first choosing a place that specializes in plastic surgery rather than a general aesthetic clinic or a dermatology clinic, and then making your decision by comprehensively considering the consultation details and the clinic's reputation. I hope this information is helpful.

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