"Round Head" Plastic Surgery Seems Excessive, Even for South Korea

[His Majesty Robosexual]

For better or worse, South Korea is famous for its plastic surgery. Maybe the procedures help some put a better face forward. One offers a rounder head.

 

One plastic surgery clinic in Seoul claims to offer the surgery for those "ridiculed" for having a flat or sunken back of the head.

 

The procedure takes under an hour and involves a small incision. Surgeons use a type of bone cement to create a round head. Yes, bone cement. Apparently, it adheres to the skull, becoming part of the bone and only adding about 20 to 80 grams to the weight of the patient's head.

 

 

Round head surgery isn't new; here's a story from 2011 talking about it, and here are photos from 2009 of patients who underwent the procedure. This month, it's once again appeared on South Korean internet forums. However, as far as plastic surgery goes, it certainly doesn't appear to be mainstream in the country. Recently, one South Korean site called the surgery "a bit much."

 

Perhaps, if someone suffered from an abnormally flat head, plastic surgery would make sense.

 

There is a condition called "plagiocephaly" or "flat head syndrome" in infants that is corrected by wearing a helmet for several months as the child grows, forming a round skull. Then, there are the rest of us, who might have slept a bit too much on our backs as babies, resulting in a somewhat flat head. That's... okay.

 

But in the above before-after photos, it's kind of hard to see a marked difference—or maybe I just don't care about the back of people's heads. Some folks, it seems, do.

 

http://kotaku.com/round-head-plastic-surgery-seems-excessive-even-for-1480236499

[heuieuu]

*starts patting back of the head to check*

[yournoona]

  is this for real though? i can understand for jaw,nose,and eyes, but FOR HEAD? i know this surgery is real, but

[sofi]

[Jeffrey Jung]

dafuq

yeah this is too much even for SK

[YOONGI]

Damn, some of these plastic surgeries are so crazy 

[YNHJ]

 Korea's obsession with beauty perfection and plastic surgery creep me out

[☆Lili]

srsly 

[danae]

holy crap lol

[DocumentaLy]

This is what we have hair for.

[GodBot]

This is what we have hair for.

 

Hairstyles looks better when you have round head 

[Õ�weet]

I even didn't see the difference in the photos. They have to push their hair for anyone to notice it? I mean they will walk like that so people will see they have a round head?

That looks painfull and useless.

[Little Red]

uhh 

[Someone actually]

wow... just wow...

[DocumentaLy]

Hairstyles looks better when you have round head 

 

You can get a different hairstyle to minimize the flatness as opposed to doing this.

[whiteasian]

what that fuckkkk

 

actually reminds me of that japanese woman who hard surgery to look like a french doll she did stuff like this

[Dandelina]

crazy. not even necessary.

[NineBraveMuses]

Who is gonna see the back of your head of you have hair anyways?

[mel_mel]

park bom don't do this ok,promise...

[Mischo]

Soon PS for fingers, ankels and so on would become very popular I mean????!

[I Was Pon This Wei]

Seriously? What's next? Plastic Surgery for your fingers to make it more "elegant"?

[RubberDuckyTai]

Seriously? What's next? Plastic Surgery for your fingers to make it more "elegant"?

 

Wasn't there a pianist/composer who cut the webbings of his fingers so that he could have better reach of the piano keys? Was it Robert Schumann? I can't remember...

 

Anyways, plastic surgery on fingers wouldn't surprise me one bit.

 

 

As for round head surgery...can't you just make your hair a bit fuller with styling tricks instead of going through surgery? Yikes...

[SUSHI]

unless you're spongebob, I don't think this surgery is necessary lol

[elle]

Soon PS for fingers, ankels and so on would become very popular I mean????!

p.s. for fingers and ankles have been existing for years now

[Lizzeh]

Thats just really excessive imo... 

 

Like after looking at the pics the difference is so small... in ppl with longer or thicker hair I probably wouldn't even notice ._.