How is the right reconstructive procedure chosen?

By diagnosis, after examination. The four categories above address different causes (concealment by fat or scar, scrotal webbing, injected foreign material, and an absent testis), and they are different operations at different prices. Start from the relevant condition page rather than from a procedure name, because the procedure name is the output of the diagnosis, not the input.

Can a buried penis be corrected in one operation?

It depends on the cause. Where suprapubic fat is the whole of it, fat removal alone can be enough. Where circumcision scarring or a skin deficit is involved, release and skin coverage are part of the same operation and the plan is larger. Nobody can tell you which applies to you without examining you.

How much does reconstructive surgery cost in Korea for a foreign patient?

There is no published answer, and any site giving you one for these four procedures is either quoting Korean domestic figures you will not be offered or making it up. Each is quoted after examination. What we can tell you in advance is what a Korean international-patient package normally includes and excludes. See /pricing/.

Is reconstructive surgery covered by the same recourse terms as cosmetic procedures?

The same recourse terms apply to every procedure arranged through Lowden & Co. See /recourse/.

Procedures · Reconstruction

Matched to the
anatomical problem, not a menu.

Every figure on this page carries its source and the date it was checked. See the methodology line at the foot of the page.

What this covers

Four problems, four operations.

Buried or concealed penis

Releasing a normally developed shaft from the skin and fat concealing it. Suprapubic fat removal where fat is the cause; scar release with skin coverage where a previous circumcision is. See /conditions/buried-penis/.

Scrotal webbing

Correction of the web of scrotal skin riding up the underside of the shaft, which conceals length that is anatomically already there. Frequently the whole of the problem when the complaint is concealment rather than size.

Foreign-body removal

Removal of vaseline, paraffin or industrial silicone injected outside a medical setting, plus reconstruction of the tissue it has destroyed. The least predictable procedure on this page, by a wide margin: the extent is only visible on imaging.

Testicular prosthesis

A silicone implant placed after orchidectomy or for congenital absence. Restores appearance and symmetry; it does not produce hormones and does not restore fertility.

Cost

Nobody publishes a price for these.

No English-language price list exists for any of the four. Korean clinics disclose domestic figures for them under the statutory fee-disclosure rule, but those are domestic prices, they are not what a visiting patient is offered, and reprinting them here as though they were would be the most quietly misleading thing on this site. Each of these is quoted after examination, genuinely so rather than as a sales tactic: what a buried-penis release involves depends on which of five causes applies, and what a foreign-body removal involves depends on how far the material has migrated, neither of which is knowable beforehand. We would rather print this paragraph than a number we cannot stand behind. See /pricing/.

How the approach is chosen

Same complaint, different operation.

None of these is a menu item. A buried penis caused by suprapubic fat and a buried penis caused by circumcision scarring present identically to the patient and are entirely different operations, and fat removal performed on the second one does not work. Where any of the four is quoted to you as a firm number before an examination, treat that number as a range that has not been labelled as one, and ask what happens to it if the examination finds more than expected.

Framing

Why this page reaches every market.

Every procedure here restores anatomy that an injury, a scar, a congenital difference or an injected foreign body has taken away. That is not a marketing frame chosen after the fact: it is the reason these pages are routed to every market Lowden & Co serves while the cosmetic enlargement page is not. Correcting a defect and enhancing a normal body are different claims, and the distinction has legal and religious weight in several of the markets on this site. It also has tax weight: procedures classed as cosmetic in Korea carry 10% VAT, and the refund foreign patients could once reclaim ended on 1 January 2026. See /procedures/penile-enlargement/ for the other side of that line.

FAQ

Questions worth asking before you book.

How is the right reconstructive procedure chosen?: By diagnosis, after examination. The four categories above address different causes (concealment by fat or scar, scrotal webbing, injected foreign material, and an absent testis), and they are different operations at different prices. Start from the relevant condition page rather than from a procedure name, because the procedure name is the output of the diagnosis, not the input.
Can a buried penis be corrected in one operation?: It depends on the cause. Where suprapubic fat is the whole of it, fat removal alone can be enough. Where circumcision scarring or a skin deficit is involved, release and skin coverage are part of the same operation and the plan is larger. Nobody can tell you which applies to you without examining you.
How much does reconstructive surgery cost in Korea for a foreign patient?: There is no published answer, and any site giving you one for these four procedures is either quoting Korean domestic figures you will not be offered or making it up. Each is quoted after examination. What we can tell you in advance is what a Korean international-patient package normally includes and excludes. See /pricing/.
Is reconstructive surgery covered by the same recourse terms as cosmetic procedures?: The same recourse terms apply to every procedure arranged through Lowden & Co. See /recourse/.

Foreign-patient prices published on Seoul clinics' English-language sites and on Korean medical-tourism platforms (https://us-uk.bookimed.com/clinics/country=republic-of-korea/), measured 2026-07-28.