EFIL's Dr. Peter Kim Wins 2017 International Health Professional Award

EFIL Plastic Surgery Center’s 

Dr. Peter Kim wins honor with 

‘2017 International Health Professional Award’

Dr. Peter Kim at EFIL Plastic Surgery Center (herein after referred to as EFIL) has been chosen as the winner of the ‘2017 International Health Profession Award’ held by the International Biographical Center (IBC), Cambrige, UK is one of the top three world leaders in biographical publishing.

The letter of intent to receive the Award that was sent out to EFIL announced that only those achieving outstanding improvement and showing great leadership in the international community are awarded, and this year it will honor Dr. Kim as the winner of the Award.

Currently, Dr. Kim is a member of the Medical Tourism Promotion Committee supervised by the Medical Capital of Korea, Medi-city Daegu, vitalizing the local medical tourism industry and its overseas expansion. At the same time, he has released various research papers by participating in domestic and overseas conferences and symposiums around 160 times, and he has performed more than 2,500 facial bone plastic surgery cases in consideration of both aesthetic and functional aspects.

Dr. Kim said, 

“Each part of the face is all connected, so all things should be considered during facial bone plastic surgery. 

With this philosophy in mind, I will take the lead in working on and performing safe plastic surgery procedures for the better health and balanced beauty of patients.”

Designated as a leading medical institution in medical tourism in Daegu, the EFIL has become the first JCI accredited medical institution among plastic surgery centers located in Daegu and Gyeongbook Province, which means that its medical services are considered safe. Plus, its exophthalmos surgery (bulging eye surgery) has been chosen in 2017 as a medical technology to be nurtured under the Medical Tourism Promotion Project led by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

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EFIL's Bulging Eye Surgery Designated as Advanced Medical Technology by the Ministry of Health & Welfare.

EFIL Plastic Surgery Center bulging eye surgery, designated as advanced medical technology to be supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare!

This surgery only takes 30-60 minutes and no hospitalization is needed. 

As a JCI accredited institution and leading health care provider in Daegu, EFIL Plastic Clinic’s exophthalmos surgery (bulging eye surgery) has been finally designated as advanced medical technology in 2017 by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Currently, great attention is being paid to the technology by both the patients at home and abroad.

Earlier, Daegu City and EFIL put together a consortium to win the ‘Medical Tourism Promotion Project in Daegu with Exophthalmos Surgery’; which had been led by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. This project is aimed at nurturing locally-developed medical technology. Finally, in 2017, EFIL’s exophthalmos surgery was chosen as having the advanced medical technology and will be supported. 
As the title of the project indicates, the core of this project is exophthalmos surgery. Thanks to the designation of the technology, EFIL will be financially and administratively supported in the field of medical technology, infrastructure, and marketing. 

Regarding EFIL’s exophthalmos surgery, an incision is only made on the inside of the eyes, leaving no outside scars. To be specific, a special medical device allows the precise localization of the incisions into a tiny area of the bone to make more room in the eye socket, and then the bulging eye is moved back in. Thanks to this breakthrough procedure, there is a massive decrease in the amount of blood lost with less swelling. Plus, the operation just takes around 30 to 60 minutes and no hospitalization is required. This eye socket expanding surgery does not just make the bulging eyes look receded. Rather, it physically moves the protruding eyeball back in, which subsequently leads to more satisfaction among the patients. 
This cutting-edge surgical technology is not the only one that EFIL boasts of. Last year, EFIL achieved the accreditation of JCI, which has the possibility it to attract more foreign patients who have bulging eyes. JCI is an internationally credible health care accreditor that was able to establish cooperation with one of the highly recognized organizations, WHO. Only those meeting the strict international standards in health care service can have the honor of being given the JCI accreditation. 

EFIL’s Director, Dr. Peter Chanwoo Kim said, “We spare no efforts to actively attract not only domestic patients, but also foreign ones with bulging eyes”. Dr. Peter Kim also added, “We will also turn Daegu City turn into a medical hub by nurturing and promoting EFIL’s exophthalmos surgery globally”. 

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Daegu Mayor Kwon Visited the EFIL Plastic Surgery Center

Daegu Mayor Kwon Visited 

the EFIL Plastic Surgery Center

The mayor visited EFIL plastic surgery center to encourage JCI accreditation, attracting foreign patients and medical infrastructure.

It was a meaningful time with the mayor to share advanced medical technologies such as EFIL`s vision and exophthalmos surgery.

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EFIL Tells You About : Orbital Bone Expanding Surgery to Get the Protruding Eyeball Back in

EFIL Tells You About : 

Orbital Bone Expanding Surgery to Get the Protruding Eyeball Back in

Bulging eyes can be caused by shallowness of orbital bones. You can quit worrying about your bulging eyes with the help of ‘orbital bone expanding surgery’, which is one of the types of exophthalmos surgeries.

EFIL Plastic Surgery Clinic uses a special medical device for orbital bone  expanding surgery. Unlike the traditional exophthalmos surgery which restructures the eye socket, only the precise incisions into a orbital bone are conducted to make more room in the eye socket allowing the bulging eye to be moved back in. Thanks to this breakthrough procedure, there is a massive decrease in the amount of blood loss. Another advantage of this surgery is that it causes less swelling than a simple blepharoplasty. Plus, it only takes around 30-60 minutes, and no hospitalization is required.

To be more specific about the procedure of orbital bone expanding surgery, an incision is made inside of the eyes, leaving no external scaring. Then, the eye socket is exposed. The medial wall, the floor wall, and the lateral wall of the eye socket are minimally osteomized and expanded with a special medical device with less amount of blood loss. As a result, more room is created and the protruding eye moves back in.

To minimize the risks of side effects, such as eye movement disorders, 
an eye movement test is performed after the eye socket expanding surgery.

The eye socket expanding surgery does not make bulging eyes look receded. Rather, it really moves the protruding eyeball back in, which subsequently leads to more satisfaction among the patients.

For foreign patients who will undergo this surgery, they need to stay in Korea for around 1-2 weeks to complete all the procedures related to the surgery, which includes the duration of the surgery, postoperative care, and recovery.

To treat congenital bulging eyes, the eye socket expanding surgery can be performed right away without running a thyroid functioning test. However, if patients have been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, the eye socket expanding surgery can be done after the patients recover from hyperthyroidism or have been treated for it for at least 1 year. If the eye socket expanding surgery is performed without hyperthyroidism being treated, then it is highly likely that the eye will bulge again. 

For the next column, the advantages of the eye socket expanding surgery will be covered. 

EFIL Tells You About : What Causes Protruding /Bulging Eyes?

EFIL Tells You About :

What Causes Protruding /Bulging Eyes?

Some people are annoyed by the functional and aesthetic issues caused by a bulging eye. Then why do the eyes bulge abnormally causing exophthalmos?

Bulging eyes are caused by hypertrophic development of ethmoidal bullae of orbital bones.
The orbital bones, the eye socket, is composed of 4 parts to protect the eyes. If the eye socket is shallow, then, there is less room for the eyeball to be placed in it. As a result, the eyeball bulges out of the eye socket abnormally .

Congenital bulging eyes can be commonly caused by hyperthyroidism. Hyperthyroidism is a condition where the thyroid gland is overactive and makes excessive amounts of the thyroid hormone. Bulging eyes are one of the common symptoms of hyperthyroidism. 

Since I have met many patients with bulging eyes and heard about their stories, I can assume that bulging eyes may possibly be related to problems in the lungs.
After keeping track of the lifestyle of the bulging eye patients, it has been found that most of them have repeated similar behaviors, which put an instant pressure on the lungs during inhalation.

Behaviors instantly pressurizing the lungs include  the act of suspending breath while dancing, singing, and playing a wind instrument, and habitual behaviors of suspending breath while playing sports such as swimming, diving underwater, and running.

In other words, when the breath is held, the pressure is added to the lungs. Then it is delivered to the honeycomb-type structure, the ethmoidal sinus, located between the eyes. If the behavior of suspended breathing becomes repetitive, it may lead to the expanding of the ethmoidal sinus. In this case, the room of the eye socket near the expanding ethmoidal sinus is reduced. As a result, the eyeball protrudes out of the eye socket.

In addition, based on the years of analysis of accumulated clinical experience, it can be inferred that frequent expression of anger or emotional changes due to excessive stress is another cause of bulging eyes. 

Patients who are eager to receive treatment for their bulging eyes may hesitate to undergo surgeries for fear of postoperative scars and possible side effects. However, an exophthalmos surgery has become a very safe operation thanks to more advanced plastic surgery procedures and technologically advanced medical devices.

 ‘Orbital Expanding Surgery’, which is one of the exophthalmos surgery types, has been highly acclaimed by patients because it can correct complex in their life with shallow orbital bones with no harm to the eyes. 

The next column will cover the eye socket expanding surgery which will resolve the root cause of the bulging eye.