Before before before before before before before after after March 17, 2023, at Whi Plastic Surgery, I am a man who had revision rhinoplasty.
I know this community’s principle is to use informal speech, but for this review, I’ll just write in my usual tone.
All the photos are really me, and I had uploaded them to Whi’s website at 4 months post-op, but this is my first time posting a photo review in this community. (*For both before and after, I only corrected pores and blemishes; no editing related to the nose shape.)
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Now that 6 months have passed, I’m satisfied.
Part of it is that it came out according to my needs, but I’m also satisfied because I met someone who is truly sincere toward his own patients, so no matter what happens, I trust the doctor and can live without worry.
<Rhinoplasty details> First surgery: 3 mm silicone, septal extension (silicone material), nasal tip raised with ear cartilage, lateral osteotomy, nostril/alar base reduction (incision), bulbous nose correction
Revision at Whi: silicone removal (capsule removed together), septal extension removal, osteotomy restoration, new ear cartilage harvested for the nasal tip to maintain height, support structure restoration
For my first surgery, an acquaintance and a close friend told me the director of a plastic surgery clinic was good, so I knew nothing, trusted them, lay down, and it failed.
After the first surgery, my nose felt foreign and unnatural, not balanced with my face. I really can’t describe it in words. It was messed up in an ambiguous way.
With my natural nose, the vertical ratio from forehead to nose to chin line was exactly 1:1:1, but after surgery, that good ratio was completely broken.
And because they did nostril/alar base reduction (incision) and osteotomy, on my face, which originally had cheek volume, only the nose became slim, so the horizontal ratio was also ruined.
After the first surgery, the silicone shifted to the right (it bent more and more over time), and the nose definitely became longer, but why were the nostrils more visible? Why did my naturally round nostrils become pointed triangles? When I smiled, my nose looked horribly like an old witch’s, and even though I had nostril/alar base reduction, because the volume above the nasal ala disappeared, the nostrils/alar area looked even more emphasized, as if I were flaring my nostrils.
As you can see in the photos, after the first surgery, the area above the nasal ala was sunken in, so the alar line actually looked more emphasized.
I also asked them only to make sure I didn’t get a chalk-stick nose, so why did they make a chopstick-like chalk-stick nose? They removed the volume beside the nasal bridge and around the nasal ala, so it looked freaking strange.
From a natural-looking face, the nose itself became awful, and because the nose changed my whole facial impression awfully,
I felt a despair I had never experienced before in my life. The despair of not being able to go back.
I thought rhinoplasty was too easy. Please really don’t take surgery lightly. Before my first surgery, until my face got ruined, I didn’t really know what kind of nose suited me, but only now have I developed an eye for it.
If you’re going to get rhinoplasty, you need to know best yourself what kind of nose suits your own face. And you need to find a doctor who understands those needs and can create it in the safest way possible.
These days everyone is obsessed with reducing size, saying bulbous nose this and that, but your facial proportions can really be completely wrecked because of the nose, so think very carefully about surgeries that are difficult to restore. Especially men, don’t recklessly make your nose too slim.
For men, the nose has to be moderately wide and plump to have masculinity. Don’t care too much about photos. Better to exercise and diet instead. If your nose looks a little bulbous in selfies, in real life most of you are probably fine.
Some people look at my first-surgery photos and say, “It looks okay?” But photos are 2D, so they can’t capture the awful real-life appearance. I didn’t show my whole face either, and I covered my eyes.
A nose where the volume disappeared where it was supposed to be, and both horizontal and vertical proportions were ruined... It was messed up so ambiguously that I almost went crazy.
The clinic where I had my first surgery gaslighted me, saying they had done it well, and even when I went to other clinics, I was treated like a patient with paranoia.
Director Hwang Se-hwi understood and reflected my needs exactly, and he is truly the benefactor who saved me. (From the slim, long nose after the first surgery to a moderately short nose, with the horizontal and vertical proportions restored, volume where it needed to be, moderate nasal width, a round and plump nasal tip, no artificial look, but with the nasal tip still having a certain amount of height to match the nasal bridge line, etc.) His career built in the plastic surgery field, aesthetic sense, skill, character in thinking about patients, and so on, truly lack nothing. He is a well-rounded doctor. He is someone I respect.
So I’m leaving this review to repay even a little of that kindness. I’ll try leaving a review at 1 year post-op too. At 2 years too... I plan to leave a review.
*This community only allows 10 photos, so this is all I can show.
I posted in detail on Whi’s website at 4 months post-op about what photos I showed Dr. Se-hwi and how I asked him to do it. If you’re curious, please refer to that.
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