First of all I would like to thank you this patient who willingly
sharing her story with all of us without being sponsored. Thanks to Dr.
Kang who is super patient during her surgery day and recovery time,
which makes her feel really satisfied with us and even opening up to us
first and give us suggestion to post up her surgery journey. =)
She reached in the morning and went to our hospital as soon as she
arrived Korea, having the consultation with us and then directly decided
to do the surgery on the same day. Well, since she’s coming well
prepared for the surgery, so she doesn’t seem to even hesitate about the
surgery at all. We went to the nearest general doctor to have a general
check up, and we also run a blood test and wait for like 3 hours before
the check up result finally came out. Since the result of the general
check up turns out super good, we began to prepare for the surgery.
The problem on this patient’s face is her high cheek bone and a square
jaw angle. Therefore you can see our surgeon marked her cheek bone and
her lower jaw, meaning she’s going to have a zygoma reduction and a long
curve square jaw reduction for the surgery today. Our surgeon also
mentioning about genioplasty / chin surgery to give her a perfect
transformation, but since she decided not to do the chin surgery
therefore the surgery today will only be zygoma and square jaw surgery.
=)
After 2.5 hours inside of the surgery, she’s finally being pulled out
and moved into the recovery room for the day. She has to put on the
oxygen mask for at least 1~2 hours, or might be longer for some with
slower recovery, after a general anesthesia to fill up the oxygen back
in her lungs. If you’re someone with a super fit condition, or if you’re
a healthy person who love to exercise, this part of recovery won’t be
too hard to deal with. You won’t even feel nauseous, the only thing is
you feel sleepy and you feel like you’re having a sore throat. This is
because that we’re putting a respiratory tube through your throat during
the whole procedure.
But if you’re someone who don’t love to exercise and is not healthy
enough, this part of recovery might feel like hell. lolz. You will keep
feeling nauseous, and some of you might even keep throwing up for hours.
Therefore, what I learn by seeing patients going through recovery after
general anesthesia is living a healthy life, and exercising regularly
definitely is important as it can make such a big different. And since
this patient, she has a super healthy lifestyle and of course love to do
exercise, she feel really convenient and comfortable during this
recovery. At around 7 pm the doctor will do a final check up before he
move her up to the 4th Floor where she’ll be hospitalized for the night.
Before continuing with the story about the patient above, here’s the
bone which is being took out from her cheek bone and jaw angle. Though
it’s not being classified as an extra huge or serious case, but you can
see that the jaw angle bone being taken out is slightly longer compare
to most of the case.
And, the next day after her surgery, we give her a can of healthy
drinks, some sort of cereal? After she finish it up, we moved her to the
3rd floor where she’ll be having her treatment of the day.
Can you see that her lips and both of her cheek is swollen? And she’s
holding a blood pocket in her hands, which normally being put after
square jaw surgery / chin surgery if you have quite a lot of bleeding,
but it doesn’t always mean a bad thing to put those on you. It can help
you to take out the clotted blood inside your surgery area as well.
Therefore having it for 1 night doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad. =D
Now the nurse is helping her taking off the tape while waiting for Dr. Kang to come and give her the treatment.
TADA~! And here’s Dr. Kang, explaining on the surgery and current
situation of the patient. Whether she has a serious swelling or not, and
what she’s going to expect next after during the recovery process. And
after a simple explanation of the current situation, he will help you to
take out the blood pocket. It feels slightly sting here, but all of the
people can endure it even without any kind of anesthesia.
After taking out everything, the doctor will check out on your
stitches condition inside your mouth, help you to clean it up and give
you some precautions on what to do and what not to do for the first week
of the surgery. As this is when you will have to be very careful in
taking care of your wound inside, to prevent it from infection.
The patient will have to go back and check on the doctor on the 3rd
day, normally it’s just to make sure that the stitches is healing
properly without any infection. =) And then you’ll have to go back to
our hospital again on the 7th day after the surgery, again just to check
on the stitches condition. Last but not least, you’ll also get an RF
treatment from us to help your swelling to goes down faster. Normally
this type of swelling treatment will be more effective for facial
contouring case and / or liposuction case.
Just
lay down, close your eyes, and we will give you a massage here and
there for 15~20 minutes. Some people would say that it feel a little
bit… just a little bit of pain when you do it for the first time (it
might be due to you still have some serious swelling and your stitches
hasn’t close up really well yet), but when you came back for the second
time and so on, you won’t feel a thing, instead it will make you feel
super comfortable that most of the patient fell asleep during the
session.
And now, the picture below is the picture of the patient on the 2.5
months after her surgery, you can see that the facial shape is getting
better but of course with some minor swelling left, meaning her facial
shape will become even more delicate and perfect after few months later.
Normally you will have to wait for at least 3~6 months (some might even
take up to 1 year) for you to see the final result of a facial
contouring surgery.
We will update more on her progress on the 6th month after her surgery, so be sure to keep following us on this blog~ =)
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