Why Cosmetic Surgery Consultations Get Delayed

When you visit a well-known cosmetic surgery clinic, surgery times can sometimes be delayed. But in fact, this is an unavoidable part of the structure.

It feels a little awkward to say something so obviously true, but let me explain it this way.

Let’s say we have five consultations from 10:00 to 10:30.

Some people come in for a simple procedure,

while others come with the weight of their whole lives on their shoulders, and sometimes even end up talking about relationship problems.

A relationship consultation is not some grand thing. Many people share stories like, “After finding out my girlfriend was seeing another man, we broke up, and I lost confidence in my appearance, so I decided to have surgery.”

In cases like this, there is no choice but to go over the planned consultation time.

That said, when someone is telling such a sad story,

we can’t exactly say, “Wait a moment, I need to see the next patient, so I have to stop here.”

As a result, the next patient, unfortunately,

has no choice but to be delayed a little... so we ask for your understanding, but unpredictable things inevitably come up in consultations like this.

You might say,

“Why not just schedule extra time for that?” But if we did that, the clinic would run far too inefficiently, so we schedule appointments based on average time.

There are also cases like this.

A patient visits the clinic to check the results after surgery, but even though two weeks have passed since the operation, there is still a lot of swelling.

In this case, because symptoms have appeared that are different from what the doctor expected, of course the doctor has no choice but to spend more time with that patient.

Of course, for the person who has been waiting, if they later have surgery at the clinic and a related issue arises, we handle it the same way.

So there is only one reason for the wait.

Because we were treating the patient before that.

That is the only reason, and nothing else.

The same goes for surgery.

Surgery may also be planned for two hours, but if the doctor expected the patient’s septum to have a certain amount of cartilage, yet it turns out to be too bent or there is too little of it, and there is not enough material for the nasal tip so ear cartilage must be harvested as well, then the operation time can increase by another 30 minutes.

This is not only true for the nose, but also for the eyes, breasts, and everything else.

Of course, there are also many cases where things finish earlier and get moved up. Depending on the situation, things may be moved up or delayed.

When there is a delay, we should go to each patient individually and ask for understanding, but we are sorry that we cannot always do that. Please be understanding with an open mind.