After going around with filler for my recessed chin for several years, I recently switched to an implant.
Filler is simple and has almost no side effects, but there were a lot of things I was unsatisfied with.
To maintain the shape, I had to keep getting it injected, and after repeated injections, I started to feel like the tip of my chin was sagging.
Most of all, my recessed chin was on the more severe side, so it didn't cover it completely.
Getting an implant felt more psychologically intimidating than filler, but I decided to have surgery because I judged that the benefits outweighed the drawbacks.
The surgery was done under sedation anesthesia, and I was chatting with the nurse in the operating room when the director came in, and after that my memory cut off right away. :)
After sleeping for a bit and waking up, I was in the recovery room, and I had something like a suction device(?) in my mouth.
The nurse said it would be better to recover for about an hour before being discharged, but there was nothing particularly wrong with my body and I had almost no pain, so I was discharged right after opening my eyes.
It was also because I had the surgery at night and it was already very late.
Even after I got home, I had almost no pain, to the point where I wondered, did I really have surgery?
But the moment I lay down to sleep, the pain came rushing in. I was also wearing the compression band, so even breathing wasn't easy.
In the end, I think I spent that night sitting on the sofa without sleeping at all.
After that, except when eating, there wasn't much major discomfort.
Maybe because I bruised more than expected, my chin and neck area are dyed bright yellow, so I look just like a trifoliate orange, and I laugh every time I look in the mirror. :)
Still, I think the surgery itself went well, and I'm satisfied with the result.
From now on, I'll have to take good care of my body so no side effects occur.
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