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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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.