After <after surgery> Before <before surgery> Before <after surgery, the area under the left cheekbone/eye also became more sunken than before surgery> Before <before surgery, left side> First, three months ago I had three types of facial contouring, long-curve jaw resection, and nose surgery.
During recovery, around the 1-month mark, I could see some asymmetry, so at first I thought maybe it was swelling and watched it, but even after the swelling went down, it felt like the left jaw had come down more? And when I wake up in the morning and yawn, or when I have to open my mouth a bit to eat? Sometimes there is a clicking sound, just enough that only I can hear it?
They said consultation would be possible after the swelling had gone down to some extent, so I held out until 3 months and visited the hospital today and got a CT scan, and my anxiety was right... When it had been 2 weeks after surgery, I said I wanted to get a CT and see whether the bones had joined well, but they wouldn't take one for me... saying it had to be taken after the swelling went down. I had to make the follow-up appointment myself and go because I was anxious... How can a hospital be so bad with aftercare and seem so irresponsible...
Looking at the photos today, as expected, the left cheekbone had nonunion and separation starting from the front fixation pin,,,, Tomorrow I'm going to call again and ask them to send me the photo and how many millimeters it opened...
As soon as I sat down, the doctor asked, Do you grind your teeth? Do you chew only on one side? And then asked whether I sleep only on one side. I'm the type who absolutely does not grind my teeth, I tend to chew on both sides, and I sleep straight on my back, but they talked as if it were my fault... I was speechless... ha
I think the most important thing is to check whether the hospital takes a CT right after facial contouring surgery before deciding to have surgery there. Since it's bone surgery, isn't that obvious??? Shouldn't they check everything, whether the surgery went well, whether the bones joined well, and whether the plate position is okay?
The hospital should be the one telling me to come in and check the progress, but how is it that I barely manage to make an appointment, go in, and only when I ask them to take one do they take it... The more I think about it... I'm upset at the hospital's irresponsibility,
Anyway, in the end they acknowledged it and said they would do revision surgery, but now that I know this, I'm so anxious and stressed that I want to do it immediately, but they said revision surgery can only be done once it has been 6 months since surgery... And they said my nose is also deviated, so they need to harvest costal cartilage and do revision surgery. Is it right that I have to bear the cost of that revision surgery?
At the time of the nose surgery too, I didn't want side effects, so we discussed going in with surgery using only my own cartilage tied together, but I had septal surgery when I was in high school (around 13 years ago, following my mom), so I had the surgery without knowing I had no cartilage. When I asked, "If you're a doctor, shouldn't you take nose photos beforehand, examine it in detail, and then operate?" they said cartilage doesn't show up... During the nose surgery, they woke me up and said there was no septal cartilage, and that they urgently had to use silicone and mesh for the surgery, so since my nose was already opened up, I said okay for now and proceeded,
But even immediately after surgery, I could see with my own eyes that my nose was crooked, but they kept saying it was because of swelling... Even when the splint was removed, I pointed out that it was crooked, but the staff said the director says the nose can only be consulted on after 3 months, and kept saying we had to see it after 3 months. Then in the end, today they looked and said it was crooked and that they would redo it... I'm really so angry. Is it right to have revision surgery at the same hospital? I don't really want to do it at this hospital and I can't trust them, so what should I do...
I trusted them thinking the doctor had a lot of experience, but the result is that I got scars as scars, and now these side effects too. I feel like I'm going to develop a mental illness...
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