Botched and disfigured - very unnatural shape to base of the alars

It's clear that my review has already forced him to change his techniques. He basically ignored me until he saw this review. I have had numerous patients message me and tell me that he has abandoned the front of the ear cartilage harvest. This happened exactly the same time I contacted the clinic in the Fall of last year about the extensive damage to my ear, columella, and alars. It's not a coincidence that he stopped doing this.

The fact that he stopped doing this is basically an admission that the technique was totally outdated and well below the standard of modern surgery.

I bet that eventually he will also abandon his horrific alarplasty technique as well since it causes horrible deformities and scarring. Just scroll through his instagram, and see how the nostrils are almost never shown, and if they are they look extremely unnatural.

I feel like speaking up will help future patients. Unfortunately, for us patients who've already had surgery we are out of luck. We will live forever with these terrible scars. Despite all of this, the man had the gall to tell me that everything was fine. Every single surgeon from the US or South Korea who has seen these images when I consulted for revision have been absolutely shocked by the amateurish level of my surgeries.

No one could understand how a surgeon could so carelessly remove so much cartilage that the ear collapses. The man operates based on a cookbook. He will do the exact same procedures on every single patient, and it is totally a crapshoot if you look okay or bizarre. And don't even get me started on how deceptive the heavily filtered instagram pictures are.

Given the substantial damage, I should have been offered a full and unconditional refund for my permanent disfigurement and pain and suffering. But more on that later.... This isn't even the tip of the iceberg in terms of everything that has happened.

I am not simply an unlucky patient, because other patients have complained about the EXACT same complications (deformed ears, bad scarring, asymmetry, and multiple infections).

I would pay almost any amount of money if there was a way to even partially reverse the damage. But there is literally is no possible way.

I've mentioned several times how his alar base reduction technique ends up leaving a very unnatural shape to base of the alars. Naturally, everyone's alars curve gently onto the face. With his technique, he basically cuts this entire piece of skin off so the border at the base of your nostrils is gone. It's a very unnatural look you see on basically all his patients. That is why they never show their nostrils in their "after" pics. In the few pictures where you do see the bottom of the nostrils, it looks very weird and unnatural. Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done once this skin is removed.
It's an extremely radical procedure and I have never seen anyone do this technique in either the US or South Korea. This is not a conventional procedure. It just leaves terrible scars and indentations, and a very unnatural contour to the bottom of the nostrils.