Nana plastic surgery: decoding branded technique names before you agree to one
Written by KCODI medical interpreter team · English deskUpdated · 8 min read
If you are searching nana plastic surgery, you have probably also seen a method name attached to it, the way most Korean clinics attach one to eyelid and nose work. Those names are the single biggest source of confusion for foreign patients, and the easiest thing to clear up.
Below: what the clinic states on its English site, how to translate a branded method back into the operation it actually is, how to verify a Korean clinic's registration yourself, and a second itemised quote for the same procedure.
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What the official site states
Nana Plastic Surgery Clinic gives its address as 406 Apgujeong-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, in the Apgujeong area, with hours stated as 10:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and Saturdays, closed Sundays and public holidays.
The English site lists breast procedures, facial contouring, rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, anti-aging treatments, body contouring and services for men and for transgender patients. It states a dedicated English coordinator and an on-site interpreter rather than an outside translation service, and describes itself as registered with the Korea Health Industry Development Institute as a facility receiving foreign patients. Those are the clinic's own statements as of the check date above.
Registration is one of the few claims you can check yourself, and we come to that below. The operations themselves are on our double eyelid surgery page.
Branded method names, translated back
Korean clinics give in-house names to their variations of standard operations. The naming is real marketing, and the surgery underneath is usually one of a small number of recognised techniques. Asking which one costs you a sentence and changes what you can compare.
| Ask | The standard answer will be one of | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Is the skin cut or not? | Incisional, partial-incision, or non-incisional (buried suture) | Determines scarring, durability and revision difficulty |
| Is muscle or fat removed? | Yes, partially, or no | Changes swelling time and the final crease depth |
| Is the levator addressed? | Ptosis correction included, or not | A droopy lid needs this; a crease alone will not fix it |
| Is epicanthoplasty included? | Inner corner opened, or not | A separate operation with a separate scar and price |
| What happens if the crease loosens? | Revision terms, in months | Non-incisional methods loosen more often |
Verify the registration yourself
Korean medical institutions that treat foreign patients must be registered, and the registration is public information rather than something you take on trust.
- Ask the clinic for its registered name in Korean characters and its registration number.
- Check it against the public information published by the Korean health authorities rather than against an agency listing.
- Confirm the registered institution name matches the name on your quote and on the building.
- If a group operates several branches, confirm which branch is registered and which one you are booked at.
Our step-by-step guide on checking a clinic licence in Korea walks through where to look. It takes about ten minutes and you can do it before you speak to anyone.
What eyelid reviews cannot show you
Eyelid results change for months. The crease sits high and hard at two weeks, softens through month two, and settles somewhere different by month six. Almost every review you find was written inside that first window.
Photographs compound it: eyelids are extremely sensitive to camera height and gaze direction. Looking slightly down deepens a crease, looking up hides it. When a gallery is consistent in both, read it as a gallery. Our guide on monolid and double eyelid anatomy explains what actually differs between eyes.
Ask for the same operation, priced twice
Once you know the standard technique name, a comparison quote is straightforward. Send us that name and we ask partner clinics for the same items.
Not sure which eye procedure you need? Clinic matching takes about two minutes, or meet the interpreters who handle eye cases.
The first month after eyelid surgery
Knowing the shape of the recovery stops a normal week from feeling like a disaster, which is when people start messaging clinics in a panic at three in the morning.
- Days 1 to 3: tight, swollen, often bruised. Cold compresses and sleeping propped up do most of the work. Vision can feel strange because the lids are heavy.
- Days 4 to 7: stitches come out around here for incisional methods. The crease looks far too high and too obvious. This is expected and it is not the result.
- Weeks 2 to 4: swelling drops noticeably, and most people are presentable with glasses. Scars are pink and will stay pink for months.
- Months 2 to 6: the crease softens and lowers. This is the period in which the operation actually resolves, and almost nothing written online describes it.
Things worth contacting the clinic about rather than waiting out: one eye markedly more swollen than the other after the first week, spreading redness with warmth, pus, sudden pain, or any change in vision. Those are not the normal course, and Korean clinics answer photo messages quickly if you agreed the channel before you left.
Everything else is time. Eyelids are the procedure people judge earliest and should judge latest.
