Should We Believe Every “Rumor” on Plastic Surgery Complication Cafes?

Hello. I’m Dr. Jo Hyun-woo of Ipcheok Plastic Surgery Clinic.

Today, I’d like to share my personal thoughts about plastic surgery complication cafes, rather than medical information.

Patients who come in for consultations gather a wide range of information.

Nowadays, so much information is available in so many different ways that many people come after reading our website, YouTube channel, or columns I’ve written.

Some people also come after reading reviews from patients on various plastic surgery apps.

Another group comes with information from anti-plastic-surgery cafes or plastic surgery complication cafes.

Are all the things said in those cafes true?

The number of people who undergo plastic surgery is really large. As you know, would people who had successful surgeries go online or write posts in cafes? It is safe to say that this almost never happens.

But of course, any surgery can have side effects, and the results may not always be satisfying.

That doesn’t happen very often, but in those plastic surgery cafes, people who have had such results come and write posts, so it seems as if side effects from plastic surgery are very common and naturally expected.

40s) 7 months after cheekbone reduction surgery, square jaw surgery, and chin surgery

“If you have contouring surgery, sagging will happen 100%, and you need periodic lifting?”

People often say things like, “Once you’re over 40, the skin will sag, so you should never have it,” but

in my opinion, that is not true.

30s) 2 years after square jaw surgery and chin surgery

If that were true, would so many people be able to have contouring surgery?

If fragmentary information is accepted as the truth, it becomes very difficult to undergo surgery.

As I always say in my columns and on YouTube, properly performed contouring surgery does not easily lead to cheek sagging or other side effects.

20s) 1 year after cheekbone reduction surgery and square jaw surgery

Compared with eye or nose surgery, contouring surgery has a much lower revision rate. That also means there are fewer side effects or instances of dissatisfaction.

Of course, people who are sensitive to sagging or who have a lot of facial fat may complain of sagging after cheekbone surgery, but this is something that can likely be sufficiently corrected with a simple laser lift or thread lift.

I have not actually been inside the cafe, so I do not know exactly what kinds of posts are there, but beyond contouring surgery, I also often see questions like, “If you get fat grafting, won’t everything just move downward and make your face sag?” Of course, if a very large amount is injected, it may look saggy.

However, the fat layer of our face is separated by multiple partitions called “septa.”

This has also been proven through various experiments.

This diagram shows the “fat compartment distribution map” of our face.

Because the fat compartments of our face are divided like this, numerous papers and textbooks state that fat placed inside them is extremely unlikely to sag downward. Therefore, even if a lot of fat grafting is done, the fat from the forehead will not come down, and fat placed in the cheekbone area will not move down into the cheeks.

Modern society has too much information, and we live in the midst of an information flood.

Among that information, some is accurate, and some is incorrect information spread like a rumor. Choosing the right information from all of that is not easy.

Therefore, rather than believing everything you read online, I think you can make a good decision if you obtain only accurate information through a consultation with a board-certified plastic surgeon.

Thank you.