What details does the doctor look at during a consultation? Why some people are turned away

At Gangnam Choice Clinic, a consultation is not a matter of glancing once and writing up an order. The face is treated as something that has to be taken apart and examined item by item: feeling skin thickness, looking at bone structure, and even factoring in which side you habitually sleep on and which direction the muscles move when you smile. The clinic is in Gangnam, Seoul, and the director performs procedures personally one on one; he also handles the consultation step himself.

What exactly does the consultation look at?

Four kinds of information: skin thickness, bone structure, your usual sleeping position, and the way the muscles move when you smile.

• Feeling skin thickness to judge what the skin itself can take
• Looking at bone structure to judge where the face's support lies
• Asking which side you tend to sleep on
• Observing how the muscles move when you smile

None of this is done with a single sweep of the eye; each item is gone through one by one, which is why some people feel the doctor examines them more carefully than they do themselves.

What happens when someone comes with a list copied from an influencer?

The clinic does not necessarily follow the list. If a procedure is not suitable, it says so directly and suggests switching to a basic one.

When someone asks for a specific trending procedure, the director's approach is to shake his head first, then explain the reason clearly: having this done would waste your money and the result would not be good either, so a basic procedure is enough. There is no pushing of large packages, and unsuitable procedures are not forced on you; this can be settled at the consultation stage.

What matters in the technique itself?

Needle entry angle and energy distribution matter; these two are handled with particular care.

How the angle and energy are placed directly affects how things look afterward. In the clinic's experience, when these two are handled carefully, patients report almost no swelling and relatively smooth lines afterward. This does not depend on any one device; it depends on judging angle and energy point by point during the procedure.