Before* These are not my photos; I brought patient before-and-after examples from another hospital.
* I don’t plan to reveal the hospital name until after my splint is removed this Saturday and I consult with the director. After that, if needed, I’ll reveal the hospital name.
* The clinic has very good reviews in this community, and I think I understand why, but I’m anxious, so I’m writing this.
Current day 4 after surgery, splint not removed yet.
There were no review events, and it’s known for a natural aesthetic, so I trusted them and had surgery, but I’m spending an anxious and hard time..
For reference, I have many friends around me who had nose surgery, and before my nose surgery I looked up many photos and posts about swelling, so I roughly know that swelling can correct things like:
1. An upturned nasal tip 2. Fullness of the nostril wings or nasal tip 3. Swelling on the nasal dorsum 4. Reduction in overall heaviness
But I almost never saw cases where a nose was high, then the entire nose itself vertically became lower, or where a nose that was clearly crooked from the columella returned to normal as swelling went down. If it’s “If only the upturned tip comes down a bit, it would suit my taste?” then it’s a success, but if it’s “The line itself is too high” or “The nose itself is too high,” that’s not a swelling problem…
The nasal tip coming down ultimately means the nose gets longer and lower, but the nose itself doesn’t change to be low, so even if swelling goes down, it can’t become the height I want…
1. Nose specs I decided on surgery because I disliked my long, droopy, large nose + hump. I have some nasal bridge, and I also wanted to manipulate my thick nostril wings.
2. Desired direction Natural! Short and small nose! I only wanted it raised slightly, just to the level of setting the droopy nasal tip in line with my nasal bridge (I emphasized that I did not want my nose to become bigger forward or longer).
Because I have a retruded chin and my chin is quite small, the higher my nose gets, the more only my nose shows on my face, so I was sensitive about nose height. I already had a fairly defined nasal bridge, and I wanted correction of the droopy nasal tip, so I didn’t want my nose to become much higher.
The droopy nasal tip comes up in alignment without becoming higher than the nasal bridge -> that was the purpose of the surgery.
3. Current condition
<The nose is too high and not the line I wanted> The height I wanted was just enough to raise the droopy nasal tip so it wouldn’t go higher than my original nasal dorsum (in the photo, I drew my desired nasal line over a before-and-after photo from another hospital’s blog -> yellow line). With the splint on, when I turn it this way and that and also look from below, it seems to have been corrected with the nose becoming slightly higher forward, like the postoperative line on the right, rather than the yellow line.
<Crooked nasal tip> People usually say a crooked nasal tip is not swelling but a botched surgery, and from right after I woke up after surgery, the nasal tip was bent to the right. I don’t know what this is; the manager says it’s swelling, but it’s getting more crooked, so I wonder if this is really swelling. If I consult, I feel like they’ll bring up facial asymmetry and so on, so I’m watching it for now.
<Wanted thin correction of the nostril wings> I debated until the day of surgery whether to make them thinner, but they said cutting out tissue should be approached carefully, so we decided that if I’m dissatisfied, I’d do it separately later under local anesthesia. But now that I’ve done surgery, my nose became too high, my nostrils got smaller, and my nostril wings look too thick… I should have done it together…
Because the nostril wings are thick and droopy, the nose looks heavy and blunt. It’s seriously over the top.
4. What I want
<I want early correction> After removing the splint, unless I can look at the exact height of the nasal tip and harmony with my face and feel confident that I can wait until swelling goes down, I plan to request early correction. I want the yellow line in the attached photo, and if it seems like the result will be like the line on the right, I think I’ll check whether early correction can make a nose like the yellow line and then have revision surgery.
“Please make the nasal tip come down” X “Please adjust the height of the nose itself, including the nasal tip, to become lower” O
Because that’s the case, the direction I want is unrelated to swelling.
And I’ll tell you why you really need to be careful with nose surgery. Unless your nose truly looks extremely crushed and you think anything would be better than your natural nose, I really hope you’re careful.
First of all, from the day after surgery, I started spiraling and it was extremely hard… Because of my unusual case of having a very small and recessed retruded chin, almost rare, I was sensitive even to tiny differences in nose height, and I barely found a hospital that could meet that need, but because the nose came out higher than I thought, my chin looked even more recessed, and it seemed like only my nose showed on my face.
Honestly, if it weren’t for the droopy nose, I probably wouldn’t have touched my nose
After surgery, my philtrum also lifted and gave me an old-lady mouth, so the next day when they removed the cotton packing, I whined asking if they could remove everything… The manager sighed a lot and looked at me like I was a difficult patient, but what can you do? Cosmetic surgery is all about a tiny difference, and people bring several million won to fix that tiny difference, so if the result is unsatisfactory, there’s nothing you can do…
I did feel sorry, but my anxiety was severe, and even accounting for swelling and the splint, the height of the nose that I could glimpse was way too much.
By my standards, the nose was clearly high, so I repeatedly mentioned early removal + consultation with the director, but I couldn’t consult… I was dying from anxiety, but I couldn’t consult with the director, so I almost went crazy. While removing the cotton, the director just said, “You look prettier than before~ let’s monitor the progress,” and left quickly. I told the manager several times that I wanted early removal and wanted to consult with the director in the consultation room, but I was only told that I could go to the consultation room when removing stitches + splint. They kept stopping me, saying it was too early because of swelling… hmm…
By my standards, because the nasal tip was raised too much, the nostrils are too long and look like an “11,” while the nostril wings are thick, so the nose looks even more stuffy. The nose became higher than my original nasal dorsum height, making my retruded chin stand out severely, and now only my nose shows on my face.
No matter how slightly it was raised, that “slight” can have a good effect on some faces, while on other faces it ruins the harmony. If the patient says that regardless of swelling or whatever, the nose height itself seems not to reflect their needs, shouldn’t the director consult with them if requested? That’s what I thought.
Apparently I can hear what surgical method was used to manipulate my nose when the splint is removed… If I’m dissatisfied after surgery and request a consultation, I feel like I should naturally be able to consult with the director, but I don’t know.
Anyway, on Saturday I plan to ask about early correction, the crooked nose, the nostril wings, and so on, and if needed, I plan to proceed with early correction right away the following week. If there’s anyone here similar to me, it would be nice to talk.
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