Booking a Sliding Genioplasty Consultation in Korea: What You Pay When, and How Many Days to Stay

For the trip, the first week of jaw swelling and the check of the incision inside your mouth set the calendar, and many surgeons want you within reach of the clinic for about a week before a long flight.

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Im Young Min

Chief Director · Board-certified in Plastic Surgery

• — Ph.D. in Medicine
• — Internship and residency, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital
• — Board-certified plastic surgeon, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital

Hello, I'm Dr. Im Young Min, Chief Director, board-certified plastic surgeon at VG Plastic Surgery in Gangnam, Seoul.

Chin bone surgery is where two facts about this clinic matter most to me. Three board-certified anesthesiologists work here full time, one dedicated to each operation, watching your blood pressure, pulse and breathing from the first injection until you're awake again; they don't perform cosmetic surgery themselves. And for facial contouring, nerves and bone thickness are mapped on CT, and the nerve that gives feeling to your lower lip and chin is the one I think about most in this operation.

You'll also have a medical interpreter for your language at no extra charge.

If you'd like to know which way your chin would move before you think about dates, send a front photo and a side profile on WhatsApp, teeth together and face relaxed, and ask whether your chin needs to come forward, down, or shorter.

What happens between your first message and the consultation room?

The booking side is shorter than most people expect. You send photos, the operation you're interested in and the areas that bother you. The surgeon who would actually operate reviews the photos personally and replies by messenger or email with a plan and an estimate. That reply is meant to cover whether you're a good candidate, with a straight no if you aren't, which procedure fits your face, and how many days you would need to be in Korea.

The in-person consultation is at the clinic at 635 Nonhyeon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Consultation hours are Monday to Friday 10:00 to 20:00 and Saturday 10:00 to 16:00, Korea time. One planning point: if you land on a Friday night, Saturday's window closes at 4 p.m. and Sunday isn't among the listed hours, so a weekday consultation leaves more room for questions without rushing.

The questions about a chin are practical ones: which direction it should move, how your teeth meet, and where the nerve runs through the bone on your CT. Bring a written list of any medicines and supplements you take, especially anything that thins the blood, and any old jaw or dental X-rays if you have them.

Is a sliding genioplasty the right chin operation for you?

In a sliding genioplasty, the lower edge of the chin bone is cut through an incision inside the lower lip, moved forward, back, up or down, or turned slightly to correct a tilt, and then fixed in its new place. Because it moves your own bone, it can change height and symmetry as well as projection. An implant only adds to the front.

A 2025 systematic review in Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum comparing implant chin augmentation with bone genioplasty frames the choice around what each technique is able to correct.

Risks and side effects to know

My reasoning runs like this. If your chin sits back a little but its height looks right, a smaller operation may be all you need. If the chin is long, short, or off to one side, moving the bone is what changes it. The trade-offs of moving chin bone, and the risks that come with it are worth reading before you decide, and if you're still weighing chin work against other contouring, five things a clinic list can't show about facial contouring helps you sort the options.

One check comes before any of this. In that case the right next step is a jaw surgeon, and I'll tell you so.

Recovery day by day, and what it means for your flight

In short, this is the general pattern after chin bone surgery. Your own surgeon sets the details for your case.

Say you're 46, flying in from Seattle with ten days of leave, and your chin has always looked set back in photos.

With only a week of leave, the trip gets tight enough that I'd rather you moved the dates than cut the buffer.

Pick a hotel a short taxi ride from Gangnam for the first nights, not a room across the city. Serious bleeding after jaw-bone surgery is rare, but a case report in Annals of Medicine and Surgery describes a patient who needed surgery in hospital for bleeding after a cosmetic lower-jaw osteotomy done as day surgery. When it does happen, distance matters.

When you know your leave dates, send them on WhatsApp along with any past jaw surgery, dental implants or braces, and ask whether those dates leave enough room for your chin.

What sets the fee for your chin?

The worry behind a Korea sliding genioplasty consultation booking fee is usually the surgery bill that follows, so here is what moves it. Foreign patients pay the same surgery fee as Korean patients, and the estimate is given in writing.

1. How the bone moves. A straight advancement is a different operation from shortening a long chin or correcting a tilt.
2. Chin alone or combined. Adding jaw-angle or other contouring work to the same operation changes the time under anesthesia and the fee.
3. Imaging. CT mapping of nerves and bone thickness is part of facial contouring here.
4. Your days in Seoul. How many aftercare visits fall inside your trip.

If you're also thinking about your nose, seven days after silicone rhinoplasty, from splint to boarding gate shows how a second operation reshapes the calendar, and if you've had nose surgery before, revision rhinoplasty that starts from what the first surgery left explains why that changes the plan. To see the figure for your own chin, ask on WhatsApp what it would cost for your case and attach the profile photo; the photo quote and consultation booking page takes the same request as a form.

Numb lip, bleeding, an uneven chin: what to know before you commit

For the first weeks, expect a swollen, tight lower face, a stiff jaw, bruising that can drift down into the neck, and a numb lower lip and chin. The numbness comes from stretching of the nerve that leaves the jawbone near the chin. For most people feeling returns gradually over weeks to months; occasionally some change persists.

Less common are infection along the incision inside the mouth, a chin that heals slightly off center, a step you can feel along the jaw edge, and bleeding. Healing differs between people, which is why I talk in ranges rather than promising dates.

As general guidance, wait or plan carefully if you smoke, have an untreated tooth or gum infection, are still in braces, take blood thinners, are pregnant, or are young enough that your jaw may still be growing.

Once you're home, swelling that increases after day three or four, fever, pus or a bad taste from the incision, bleeding that doesn't stop with pressure, or numbness that spreads rather than shrinks needs a doctor the same day; an oral surgeon or an emergency department is the right place for anything inside the mouth. Carry your operation note and CT images home, and before you fly, ask which number to message if the incision looks wrong.

To start, two photos are enough: your face from the front and in profile, in daylight with your teeth together, plus your leave dates, sent on WhatsApp. Ask how many days your chin would need before you can fly home; the reply is meant to cover that. In person, the first thing I'd want to see is your lower-jaw CT, where the nerve sits relative to the planned cut, and how your teeth meet, because those two decide how far the bone can safely move.

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• Facial Contouring surgery at VG Plastic Surgery