What I learned during a consultation today was so astonishing that I'm writing this between appointments.

I had heard that group KakaoTalk chats are common among clinics these days,

and a patient who came in today asked whether one of my recent double-line excision patients had developed multiple folds.

When I told her there was no such case, she pulled up the post she had read.

Someone who never had surgery at our clinic was being described in the post as a patient of ours who had developed multiple folds and even underwent an early revision here.

What is this? Whoever wrote this, please contact me directly.

The post claims surgery at our clinic on October 11, 2023. No such patient was operated on, and no fat grafting was performed on the date in question.

If anyone affiliated with another clinic is behind this, I'm asking you to stop. Consider this a warning.

The post goes further: it claims an early revision was performed at our clinic on October 20, 2023, for the multiple folds.

No early revision was performed on this patient at our clinic.

Had it actually happened, we would of course have done the revision — but it didn't. So where exactly was this surgery performed?

Baseless online attacks are something I've heard of, but this is on another level.

Most of the negative posts about our clinic come from people who never had surgery here, citing things like: "The surgery was too short, so apparently they rushed." "They never sat the patient up mid-procedure, so it must have been sloppy." "The director seems intimidating, so I'm not even going to consult."

These are people who never had surgery here. Is this the level we've reached?

It's a sobering thing to see.

I'll be gathering evidence carefully. Whoever you are at the other clinic — be ready for the consequences when this reaches the plastic surgery society.

—— Update — October 30, 2023.

Sharing what another patient sent us through KakaoTalk.

Whether the multiple folds were actually corrected is unclear, but for folds at this severity I don't perform fat grafting — there's no need. From the adhesion pattern visible here, the folds may not have been fully resolved.

A case at this severity warrants an early revision.

To wrap this up: we made direct contact with the patient and confirmed she had her surgery at another clinic in the Sinsa/Apgujeong area.

I had been considering legal action; for now, with the patient identified, we'll continue to watch the situation.

Ours is a small clinic, and we treat every patient with full attention.

As of October 30, 2023, we run no review discounts and operate primarily on patients who come through word of mouth and referral.

We'd ask others to refrain from creating misunderstandings.