Hi @MissOrange, can you confirm your other fat grafts in Korea all had an anaesthesiologist in the surgery room? Given the facts around HK heiress death and your experience at Fresh, I'm wondering how common it is for one not to be present during surgery in Korea. Also can you help me understand if we should require one be present if we get any type of anethesia whether it be local, twilight, general, etc? Thanks!
How to go from 50+ to looking 20+ with plastic surgery rejuvenation.
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Hi @Gats, MVP has a male anaesthesiologist on their website. I remember once meeting a female anaesthesiologist who introduced herself as such and was able to request antiemetic in my iv for the first 2 ops I had at MVP and she spoke a little English and remembered me when I saw her again. I never saw her this year so am not sure who gave me IV sedation but it went smoothly without hallucinations so thankfully I did not get the cheap drug ketamine. I must have had ketamine in 2018 as I saw the picture on the wall moving when I came to in recovery. It was very distressing to be hallucinating! At DA I saw a male doctor in theatre other than the surgeon Dr Kim and freaked out thinking he was the shadow doctor and was told after, when I enquired, that he was the male anaesthesiologist as I was put under GA for that particular facial fat graft. I assume it was because I was complaining in English about the incompetent theatre nurses as I lay on the theatre table. But waking up from the GA was so frightening as I could not breathe from the nitrous gas. I swore never to get GA in Korea after that.
But at Fresh you sign a separate English consent form agreeing for Dr Hong to administer the IV cocktail of propofol, ketamine and midazolam, which raised alarm bells for me and that is why I asked the consultant whether there was an anaesthesiologist and she replied no, Dr Hong injects himself. I asked myself how could the doctor operating monitor my vital signs while concentrating on the surgery itself? What if I needed intubation? I thought I was already taking a risk with a doctor who was not a board certified plastic surgeon (ie one of the 9/10 doctors in Korea doing plastic surgery without plastic surgery board certification) but to take on another risk of no anaesthesiologist in the theatre or clinic, was one too many. Even Dr O in Belgium has a qualified anaesthesiologist who saw me before my arm lipo for a medical history and I was able to request ondansetron iv antiemetic, administered and monitored me during twilight sedation and Dr O can still offer competitively low prices for similar procedures.
In the U.K., you can either have private plastic surgery in a private hospital under GA or cheaper private plastic surgery in the basement of a one surgeon clinic, a bit like Korea but the stark difference is that the twilight IV sedation in the basement is administered by a qualified anaesthesiologist in the U.K. who is often also a consultant anaesthetist in a NHS hospital. It is unheard of for the surgeon to be both surgeon and anaesthesiologist and for a nurse or surgeon to administer the twilight iv sedation. The only time a surgeon administers is if it is local anaesthesia.
It means asking at each consult whether a board certified anaesthesiologist will be administering the anaesthesia. Often if it is facial contouring or rhinoplasty, it will be as this requires general anaesthesia but for procedures done under twilight sedation, I wonder if some clinics use nurse anaesthetists instead? It never occurred to me to ask until the experience with Fresh and we have been noticing more plastic surgery deaths in Korea of late. I have not heard of a plastic surgery death in the U.K. but have heard of postop stroke as a complication of surgery with general anaesthesia. I guess all operations come with risks which is why you should only get surgery if you really need it and not for a minor improvement.
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Okay folks please remove Dr Bednar as a recommendation for breast fat transfer in North Carolina. I have just read a very long and detailed negative review by a 37 yo British lady who flew all the way to have her op with him. She writes that he does not operate in a hospital but in a tiny clinic and the anaesthetist is not a doctor but a nurse. Her photos of her b&a are clear evidence to back up her review. I am reposting what her tummy looked like after he harvested fat for her breasts which have left her with a left breast a cup size larger than her right. Hope she posts her review on RS. Dr B’s FB group does not allow for negative reviews. Thank goodness she found another group that would let her share her honest experience to warn others. To think I was debating whether to pay 50% deposit for the $11k surgery and fly to North Carolina myself! She like me had a bad feeling right before her operation. She was even invited to cancel her operation by the surgeon and his wife, but instead went ahead. I thank my angels that in that split moment, I chose to cancel my operation instead of risk breast lumps, oil cysts or an anaesthetic complication.
I have a consultation with Mr David Floyd booked next month. I think if I do go ahead with breast fat transfer, it has to be done in a U.K. hospital with a consultant anaesthesiologist too with proper recovery room beds. I am wearing a thigh compression garment as I seem to have developed a fat lump on my front right thigh?! I hope it flattens out. Fat cells tend to expand elsewhere when you remove fat cells from your body and I have had way too many inner thigh lipos for facial fat grafts.
I have a consultation with Mr David Floyd booked next month. I think if I do go ahead with breast fat transfer, it has to be done in a U.K. hospital with a consultant anaesthesiologist too with proper recovery room beds. I am wearing a thigh compression garment as I seem to have developed a fat lump on my front right thigh?! I hope it flattens out. Fat cells tend to expand elsewhere when you remove fat cells from your body and I have had way too many inner thigh lipos for facial fat grafts.
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Another reason to make sure you do your research thoroughly and not just trust one review site. https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-pla...5cSC_U3F6n3jZQyndz6Do_YF3A2X7PuhkDfU7V8ItXjU0 Plastic surgeon Dr Manish Gupta had a 4.9/5 star rating on RS yet he was arrested last Friday for drugging women with ketamine and diazepam and then raping women, allegedly for years! If you are fully sedated, you need to make sure you are safe as a female, especially if you are having surgery in a foreign country solo.
Looks like the skin did not adhere to the underlying tissue after he lipoed out the fat? Does she have nodules/lumps from the lipo? Did she wear compression garments at all?
Today is almost 2 months after my full face fat graft at MVP and thread removal and amazingly I look good at 101 lbs! How can a weight gain of 6 lbs do this? Wow! So if you have saggy jowls try gaining weight! Think of it as blowing up a deflated balloon. Natural weight gain costs nil!
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Hey @MissOrange,
Can you pls tell me about your recovery from upper lip lift? I’m planning to travel from Australia to the US to get it done by Dr Mascaro. But I have only 1-1.5 weeks tops to go back to work (I work in a lab and interact with many people). Do you think I can get away with it? How was your speech/smile after 1 week post op?
Can you pls tell me about your recovery from upper lip lift? I’m planning to travel from Australia to the US to get it done by Dr Mascaro. But I have only 1-1.5 weeks tops to go back to work (I work in a lab and interact with many people). Do you think I can get away with it? How was your speech/smile after 1 week post op?
Hi @Sophie_45 Dr Mascaro has good reviews so you are in good hands. I had mine done in the U.K. under local so the recovery was fast, one week and I was out and about. The incision is visible under the nose but fades from 2 weeks onwards.
Hi @MissOrange thank you so much for sharing your experience here. You look amazing for your age!
Since you say that South Korea has lower medical safety standards than the West, would you say that it's best to get surgery done in USA/UK unless the procedure is not available there? I am thinking of getting rhinoplasty done in Korea because I hope that Korean doctors have more experience with asian noses and because Kpop stars look so gorgeous, but now I'm not sure.
Since you say that South Korea has lower medical safety standards than the West, would you say that it's best to get surgery done in USA/UK unless the procedure is not available there? I am thinking of getting rhinoplasty done in Korea because I hope that Korean doctors have more experience with asian noses and because Kpop stars look so gorgeous, but now I'm not sure.
Hi @silverneedle,
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, if the procedure is not available in the U.K. or US then go to Korea. For instance facial fat graft is better in Korea as not many plastic surgeons have enough experience in the U.K. There is one plastic surgeon in Illinois who is good at facial fat graft and is mentioned on RS by violaxoxo. Any bone facial contouring should be done in Korea but be wary as the face needs volume and if you remove bone, the skin is very likely to sag, even more so as our jaw bone naturally shrinks as we age.
As for rhino, Korea pushes silicone for primary rhinoplasty which U.K. and US rhino surgeons do not use. The cost of rib rhino in Korea is as much as U.K. surgeons charge. In Korea the aesthetic now tends to be big straight noses in ladies in my opinion. I think it is 50:50 whether you go to Korea for rhino or have in the US or U.K.
Here is a 3 month update since I had full face fat graft at MVP in January. I have gained weight during the U.K. lockdown so now weigh 100.4 lbs which is a lot more than 96.4 lbs I weighed in Korea back in January! I keep forgetting that I should keep my weight up as my face looks better and I don’t have to then keep monitoring my fluid intake! Next time I even think I need another fat graft top up, remind me to gain weight and not drop below 100 lbs! Lol. No facelift and no thread-lift required. Make sure you keep your BMI at or above 19.0 to avoid facial skin sagging or drooping! It needs volume! 54 years old next month! Woohoo!
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Here is an 8 month update on my upper arm liposuction port incision sites for the cannula. The right one is almost invisible and the left one is just a minor blemish that I expect to continue to fade by the 1 year mark. I would say it was well worth doing to avoid a long armlift scar if you have good skin elasticity. Test with the pinch test. Your skin should flatten within a second. Dr Oelbrandt of Belgium gets full marks for his arm liposuction.
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Is Radiesse the best for nasolabial fold? I thought Juvederm was the go-to.. And how many CC's would an average person need for a mild case (31 year old here).
You look great btw.
You look great btw.
I only had radiesse for my nasolabial folds for over 10 years so cannot comment on juvederm. I usually need 1.5 cc’s total or 0.75 cc per side.
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