This post is not false information or exaggerated slander, but my own firsthand experience.
I had already been thinking that I needed nose surgery. I was uncomfortable with silicone and worried about various side effects, so I was only considering a non-implant nose surgery, but I happened to see a video of a non-implant nose surgery on SNS. When I watched the video, I really liked how natural it looked and the nose line, and I thought it matched the kind of beauty I pursue, so I saved it thinking I would go there if I ever had surgery later. Then I finally had time and felt that if I did not do it now, I would not be able to do it, so I immediately booked a consultation together with rhinitis surgery without knowing anything. To be honest, I did not go there so much to consult as to set a surgery date right away, and I had absolutely no intention of putting silicone in because I disliked it and worried about side effects. I was completely fixated on how they seemed to shape a smooth line well without an implant, and I felt other hospitals would not satisfy me, so I did not go to other consultations and went straight to this one. I told the manager in charge that I was worried about a hump nose, a long nose, and a drooping nose tip, and asked the surgeon about alar reduction as well, but was told that if the tip were lifted, the nostrils would also move up and become narrower, so it probably would not be necessary. That made me trust them more, because they did not recommend anything unnecessary. And since silicone would not be used, of course it could not be as smooth as silicone. To prevent irregularity and make it smoother, they said they would add dermis (Megaderm) (1 mm) to the bridge, so I decided to add it.
(I was told that about 30% of the dermis might be absorbed, but since the purpose from the beginning was not to raise the bridge height, but to avoid unevenness, I thought that would not matter. However, after surgery I looked up information and learned that Megaderm is not absorbed evenly and could actually make it more irregular. I was never told this. If that was the case, why was it inserted? That thought crossed my mind.) - The manager in charge said 1 mm would not make a difference.
When I watched the surgeon's non-implant surgery videos, there was not even the slightest irregularity and the line looked smooth, so I made the deposit without worry. On the day of consultation I wanted surgery as soon as possible, so I checked whether it would be possible to move up the surgery time for an existing patient scheduled five days later, and was told it was possible, so I booked surgery for the afternoon.
On the day of surgery Before surgery, I planned to show the doctor the photos I had brought and decide on the design. I kept waiting in the consultation room, then they asked whether it would be okay to see the design in the operating room, and I said okay. After the surgeon came in, they drew the design with a pen, and it felt like they were done in 5 seconds? Maybe 10 seconds? Then I lay down on the operating table. Up to that point, I was thinking the surgeon would handle it well on their own. Even if I showed photos, it would not be possible to make it 100% identical anyway, so I thought the surgeon would operate according to my face.
Day 7 progress The moment the splint came off, I looked in the mirror, lost all words, and put the mirror down. I wanted a slender, natural look, but with a more glamorous emphasis, yet because of the swelling the nose looked even more blunt, the line looked irregular, the columella was pulled in so much it looked as if the nose had been cut away, and the nose tip was lifted so it looked like an upturned nose. I was shocked, but the swelling was extremely severe, so I thought it must be swelling. I also kept having nasal congestion and breathing through my mouth, and at that time perhaps blood had pooled or something like that. After the splint was removed, the staff in the operating room called the surgeon, and after looking at the condition of my nose, the surgeon squeezed my nose hard. (After that, discoloration appeared beside the bridge between the eyebrows.) Then, when I said the nose looked too lifted, the columella looked too tucked in, and the bridge looked irregular, the surgeon said that was not true and that it was fine, so I thought it was swelling. They checked for about 3 to 5 minutes? and then the surgeon left. I was told to speak with the manager in charge in the lobby before leaving, so I sat in the lobby and waited, and something started flowing out of my nose. When I went to the restroom to check, it was blood. I received hemostatic treatment and swelling laser treatment, then went home.
2 weeks later The stitches inside the nose were removed, and the surgeon briefly checked the progress in the same way as before and again said the same issues were fine, then left. Up to that point, the only post-op management I had received after the nose surgery was an injection or something like that and swelling laser treatment twice, plus the day-7 swelling laser after the nose bleed. At that time, the manager in charge saw my nose condition and said the swelling was severe... The surgeon seemed busy and always gave only a short checkup during dressing changes. At first, the manager in charge had mentioned a discount if I did video filming and wrote a review, but filming a video felt too burdensome, so I did not do it. Watching the videos made it seem like the surgeon removed the splint and provided more care, so much so that I even thought I should have agreed to film a video instead.
+ To keep the inside of the nose from becoming dry, I kept applying ointment. I was running out of the nasal ointment, so at the 2-week follow-up I asked the staff in the operating room, and they said I could apply something like Madecassol or Fucidin, so I kept using that. But around the time it was becoming 3 weeks after surgery, the nasal congestion was still very severe, so I went to an ENT clinic and received dressing care. When they looked at my nose condition, they asked what had been done to the nose, and I said I had undergone nose plastic surgery together with rhinitis surgery. When they said there was also inflammation, I immediately messaged the manager in charge and asked them to make a hospital appointment for Saturday. On Saturday, I went to the ENT clinic first, got dressing care, then visited the hospital. The surgeon used something like a long cotton swab to clear it out, and when looking here said there did not seem to be any inflammation, so I did not attend the 1-month follow-up and went home after scheduling the 3-month follow-up.
After that, I received dressing care at the ENT clinic about once or twice a week. There were many scabs inside the nose, and the scabs were so sticky that they could not be removed all at once. I was told that if I visited regularly for dressing care and took medication, it would be fine and would not spread over the bridge of the nose, so I felt relieved, took antibiotics for about a month, and continued dressing care until beyond the 2-month mark. I was also told that the bone looked visible? I asked whether that was okay, and was told that it would be fine once time passed, so I did not raise it as a separate issue.
(Currently, most of the scabs have been removed and the nasal congestion has improved to some extent. However, the runny nose continues.)
After 2 months, I hoped it was just swelling, but from the front the nostrils were much more visible than before, and the line looked different when viewed from 45 degrees on the left and right. When I turned my head to the left it looked okay, but when I turned to the right, perhaps because the swelling had gone down, the irregularity became more noticeable. I asked the manager in charge about AS, wondering whether the hump had not been fully corrected, and the manager in charge replied:
"Hello, [Name]~ The lines on both sides can be different, but at the 1-month follow-up there did not seem to be any especially unusual issue, so since you have a 3-month follow-up scheduled in July, we will check the progress together then and go over it with the surgeon. Do you think a little more of the hump is needed?"
I was taken aback by the phrase "the lines on both sides can be different," but they said the surgeon needed to check it once, so I decided to look again at the 3-month follow-up. Until then, I kept taking photos of my nose all day and checking it. If it looked even a little better, I felt okay that day; if it looked irregular again, my mood dropped that day. People around me said it looked like Pinocchio and that all they could see were my nostrils. From the front, the nostrils showed too clearly compared with before, so I looked stupid, and I kept taking selfies, checking, deleting, and staring only at my nose for several hours a day, as if I had gone crazy.
3-month follow-up The condition of my nose was that before surgery it was a curved nose like \, and after osteotomy this part improved compared with before, and the long nose also improved. Compared with immediately after surgery, the lifted-looking nostrils had come down somewhat, but they were still more visible than before. Even if there had been some asymmetry before, it had not stood out like this, but after surgery the nostrils were clearly visible from the front and uneven, so they looked like \u201C( 0 ) ( 0 )\u201D, like the evil spirit Pyung-hwa-daemwang, and the irregularity at the 45-degree angle was still there. When I turned my head to the right, the area between the eyebrows and the bridge looked sunken, and the hump area looked raised.
Two days before the follow-up appointment, they suddenly called and said that because of the surgeon's surgery schedule on the appointment day, it would be difficult to have the follow-up on that day at all. I said that was the only day I had time, and they said there might be a waiting time. I could only feel that they were changing their story, as if they had received a new surgery patient and wanted me to move the follow-up to another day. Anyway, I visited the hospital on the appointment day. They said that if the irregularity bothered me too much, they could fill it with filler. Since I did not think it made sense to fill filler into a nose that had already had surgery, I said I did not want filler. They then said they could shave the hump a little more, but even if they shaved it, they could not guarantee it would become completely smooth, and it might even become stranger. So the consultation ended like that, and when I said I did not think there was any need to schedule a 6-month follow-up, I would just go home, the staff in the operating room said it would still be better to meet the manager in charge, so I kept waiting. Then the manager in charge said, how should we handle the 6-month follow-up? I had already said I would not be seeing the 6-month follow-up, so I could only think, was I really waiting just to hear this? I was honestly speechless, and on the way home I could only cry. The surgeon spoke vaguely, so I am just going to allow more recovery time and later plan to have revision surgery at another hospital.
I also had rhinitis surgery at the same time, but after surgery they did not separately review the CT and follow up on it. I had the surgery because one nostril was always blocked and it was uncomfortable when sleeping, but while I am standing in daily life it is fine, yet when I lie down to sleep, the nasal congestion is still there.
In addition, the manager in charge sometimes spoke to me informally, which was uncomfortable. They really should fix that. The staff in the operating room were excellent from start to finish, and I am still grateful to them. On the day of surgery, when I went home, the anesthesia had not fully worn off and I was dazed, but on the way out they supported me all the way to the first-floor front entrance after work, and told me not to worry because things would be okay at the follow-up, which helped me a lot mentally.
This post was not written to slander the hospital or spread falsehoods in order to damage its reputation, and I state that there is no false information in the content of this post. It was written with the purpose of helping people who are interested in cosmetic surgery make decisions, and was based on the rights of consumers guaranteed by our Constitution and the Framework Act on Consumers. It is written for the purpose of sharing objective facts and helping other patients, and I state that it has no purpose of defamation against the medical institution beyond the public interest.