I had rhinoplasty with Dr Kao Chuan Hsiang on 2010. He is friendly but result is another thing. If you want to spend thousands for a subtle/natural looking changes, he may be suitable for you. But if you are looking at drastic changes, I strongly believe korea is a better choice. Although there is a language barrier between you and your surgeon, they are in the comfort zone of doing dramatic changes.nosecraze wrote:Hi Terrie, yes it's goretex wrapped with a layer of silicone.
I did closed surgery too btw.
Anyway I'm sure all doctors have their own good and bad press but for me I will definitely stick with dr kao be cox he's seriously a very good doctor.
A ear nose throat specialist, good bedside manners, and fyi he had booked his trip to Bali with his wife and still squeezed in our operations because we insisted and he visited us to see how we are the day right after he returned from his holiday.
And the best part, he entertains all my paranoid emails, haha!
Hi dear, mine is a revision eyelid so it's cost me 4k sing include accommodation in bkclinic guest house. With flight n food total spend 5k. I stay in for 7days 6 nights.shepherddy wrote:Hi Worries,
May I know how much is double eyelid surgery by Dr Kim from korea?
How long do you have to stay in korea for the surgery?
Hi everyone! I guess I pretty much disappeared off the face of the planet after my surgery was done and I continued with my healing process.Atlantis wrote:Hi guys - I finally went through all the pages. I am thinking of going to Taipei in Mid-July for nose and eyes. I was born in Taiwan so I can speak Mandarin, but grew up in Canada so my English skills are actually better than my Chinese. But still fluent enough to converse in Mandarin.
I am wondering if anyone is going so I can have a buddy during that time. And if needed I can be someone's translator.
My aesthetic sense is actually very different from a lot Asian people...I actually don't like really large eyes with very visible double eyelids. Unless your face is suited to that kind of look. With Asians, our face tends to be slightly flatter and less 3-dimensional so sometimes the really large, double-eyelid look is kinda scary...or something about it doesn't suit the face.
Mine is actually an inner double eyelid - and I want to keep it that way, but I have a lot of fat and skin which makes me tired looking - so likely I'll probably ask for very little removal of fat and skin and a slightly higher double eyelid which will turn into more of an inner. I find a soft, curved lid line is more energetic than a lot of people with the double eye lid. But that's just me.
As for nose - mine is just kinda undefined around the nose bridge and dorsum, and the tip is slightly droopy...so I am not really sure if I want to use rib or cartilage graft. I also don't want a super high Eurasian nose...I don't want to make new friends in the future and when they look at old photos of me, find out that I look completely different.
But yeah if Blissful and Missuglynose is still around - I would really like some feedback on Dr. Hsu. The last time Blissful updated, she seemed really pissed at Dr. Hsu, and wished for a primary originally done by Korean Doctors. I am wondering if she did that for revision or if she went back to Dr. Hsu. And are korean doctors really actually good at autologous grafts for rhinoplasties? Also Missuglynose - you did yours with Dr. Hsu - using cartilage from your ear - was there resorption? And how are you liking the results now?
From what I know about the techniques in the West - there's a surgeon in New york that uses high-def endoscopic method of doing his rhinoplasty procedures - and it has been said that this method drastically lowers bruising and swelling as well as formation of scar tissue because only the tissue that needs augmentation are disturbed. There are people who went and had their nose bumps shaved (which usually cause tonnes of bruising on the face) and at 5 days post-op they look pristine. No swelling or bruising, and they just went on vacation within a week of doing the rhinoplasty. As well, there are surgeons in Maryland US that harvest your ear cartilage and using different methods (like for instance rolling and shaping it in fascia) prevents the huge amount of resorption that we see with cartilage from the ear.
The Taiwanese doctors are certainly 3-4 times cheaper than these US surgeons and can potentially have more of an idea of what is beautiful for Asians look like...but I am concerned about other things like the aftercare with Nurses seem terrible (that is unheard of in the west), and resorption or lack of resorption, the sometimes outdated methods of performing surgeries (like Dr. Chuang with his epis). I am wondering if anyone has any feed back on this. Or if anyone has looked at US surgeons and has seen those technologies and methods I outlined.
I welcome any feedback. Sorry for the long post
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