Before <before surgery> Before <before surgery> After <1 week> After <1 month> After <1 month> After <2 months> After <2 months> It has already been 3 months since I had nose surgery. Before surgery, a day felt like a year, but after surgery, I don’t know why time seems to pass so quickly.... Anyway, I don’t know if my review will help, but I’m writing this so everyone who is considering surgery can take a look~
First, my nasal bridge itself wasn’t low, but my nasal tip dropped straight down, so it was a nose that “looked” low. People who know will know, but when you take a profile photo, if the eye on the opposite side is hidden by the nasal bridge, your nasal bridge is not on the low side. I definitely had a nasal bridge, but while going around for surgical consultations, I learned how important nasal tip height is. Every hospital diagnosed me the same way: I had a nasal bridge, but my nasal tip was very droopy, making it look low and bulbous.
I went to consultations at several hospitals, but the other hospitals all said my nasal bones were on the thick side and recommended osteotomy together.. Since several hospitals mentioned doing osteotomy as well, I was wondering whether osteotomy was essential, and then I finally decided on a hospital that said if they set the nasal tip and overall nose shape well, they could make it look sufficiently slim even without osteotomy.
My skin was also on the thick side, and when the nasal tip was pulled out with a cotton swab, my tip did not extend very much. They recommended using rib cartilage as well to prepare for the nasal tip drooping, saying that with a nasal tip like mine, if they raised it a lot using septal cartilage or other cartilage, the tendency for it to return would be stronger. Since I do have a nasal bridge, to make the shape match my face, raising the nasal tip high was unavoidable, so I had no hesitation about using rib cartilage. Because I had had Hiko in the past due to my bulbous nasal tip, I also had the foreign material removed, and I decided to have surgery with silicone in the nasal bridge, donated costal cartilage in the nasal tip, and septal cartilage!
There are many reviews saying foreign material removal hurts, but since this was my first nose surgery, I don’t know how much of a difference there is in pain between removing foreign material and not removing it... In my case, though, I took painkillers regularly and followed the precautions the hospital told me, so I don’t think it was extremely painful. It just felt similar to the pain I had seen often in nose surgery reviews.
Actually, more than the pain, what was hard was having trouble breathing before removing the nasal packing and not being able to sleep comfortably. But time passed faster than I expected, and before I knew it, 4 days had gone by quickly. After the splint was removed, by week 1 I was able to go about daily life pretty well.
You can probably see it a little in the photos, but at week 1, the bruising had turned yellow and was starting to fade, and that much could be covered sufficiently with makeup. Still, just in case, before the bruising went away I didn’t wear makeup when going out and wore a hat. Sometimes in reviews I see quite a few people saying they wear makeup from week 1, but I’m the type who gets very anxious about safety, so just in case I avoided makeup.
As the director said, only the minimum amount of silicone was inserted, and the surgery focused on the nasal tip. Even just improving the nasal tip made my nose look much slimmer and my image much more refined? Since I had surgery because of my nasal tip, I’ll mainly upload profile photos. I hope this helps even a little for everyone who is considering it!