EFIL Plastic Surgery Center Acquired JCI

EFIL Plastic Surgery Center Acquired JCI 

Evaluation for ‘International Level of Safety for a Medical Institution’

▲ JCI Certification

EFIL Plastic Surgery Center, one of the Leading Medical Institutions in Daegu, acquired JCI (Joint Commission International) certification among the plastic surgery clinics in Daegu and Gyeongbuk for the first time. It is only the third JCI-accredited plastic surgery clinic in Korea.

JCI is a United States-based organization which accredits medical services from around the world, and it has a partnership with WHO to secure safety for the patients. With world-wide public confidence, JCI accreditation is acquired by a medical institution which has passed the rigorous international standards of medical service evaluation. 

JCI’s on-site evaluation checked if EFIL provides a medical service required by the JCI standards: patient treatment system, infection control, facility management, disaster and safety management, pharmaceutical administration, and medical equipment maintenance. As a result, EFIL received JCI accreditation, which is valid for three years from October 2016 to September 2019. 

It is a foundation stone for them to grow as a global medical institution above their domestic reputation. 

EFIL provides various plastic surgery treatments: bulging eye surgery, bimaxillary surgery, facial contouring surgery, nose surgery with diced rib cartilage, forehead reduction surgery, face-lifting surgery, migraine surgery, and botox and filler treatment. Notably, their bulging eye surgery was certified as a Leading Medical Technology for Medical Tourism by Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2017, and it is recognized by both domestic and foreign patients.

 

Chan-woo Kim, the Director of EFIL, said, “JCI approved that our medical service for patients’ safety and infrastructure meet their international standards,“ and emphasized that, “Our professional staff has countless surgical experiences. We use anesthesia that causes less bleeding, and ultrasonic waves that minimize the swelling, pain, and side effects. Therefore, both domestic and foreign patients are highly satisfied with our treatment.”

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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.