Guys, I’ve had nose surgery twice, and I’m someone who got burned really badly by the first surgery and had revision surgery this time. During the first surgery, I guess the doctor’s business wasn’t going well, because he said he could do the whole surgery for the amount I wanted. Does that even make sense? But what makes me angrier is that I believed him. Why? At the time, I had no money and, as for surgery information, I only knew about the materials in a basic way, and I didn’t know a single thing about the characteristics of each material or what kinds of people should use them. And more than anything, I think I just wanted to believe it. I had no money, but I wanted surgery, and the places that said they would do it within my budget were extremely limited. Anyway, so I had the surgery, and how did it turn out? It was truly miserable. I had just an ordinary nose, but it became crooked, droopy, and a total mess. I had surgery, but my original nose before surgery was actually better. You know the image that comes to mind when someone says “witch nose.” That was my nose. My nose didn’t get better, to the point where I wondered if dying would be easier. The hospital only kept saying the shape was still settling, but to me it felt like something they were saying just to send me home. I think a lot of you know how I felt.
So what’s the conclusion? I had revision surgery. Yes. I really went into the revision grinding my teeth. I asked around in places where there are a lot of people like me, and I went to consultations at 12 hospitals.
The first thing I want to say is, guys, don’t try to save money on your nose. Seriously, as you all know, even a small change to the nose can completely change the impression of your face. Even so, if your other features support it, you may have a pretty face, but unfortunately we are not celebrities, and I also just have an ordinary face. That’s why the nose is really important. Cheap materials? Personally, I want to strongly advise you to think about it one more time if possible. A representative example is donated costal cartilage. There are definitely people here who may think, “Why donated costal cartilage?” What I personally felt while getting revision surgery this time is that there seem to be really so many cases of people looking into revision surgery after having donated costal cartilage for their first surgery. Of course there is autologous costal cartilage too, but I saw more cases where people had donated costal cartilage than autologous costal cartilage. And donated costal cartilage can be done even without an anesthesiologist, but autologous costal cartilage requires an anesthesiologist. If they use donated costal cartilage, can they really focus while both administering anesthesia medication and operating? I’m anxious about that, so I’d rather just do autologous costal cartilage.
Autologous costal cartilage is expensive, yes, but rather than losing 5-6 million won on revision surgery, it is honestly much better to pay about 1-1.5 million won more at the beginning and use autologous costal cartilage. Later on, this stops being a cost issue, and you feel so much self-loathing that you want to turn back time to before the surgery, and the reality check hits extremely hard.
At this point, I think you’ll ask where I had it done, and since I’m writing this review honestly, I’ll write it: I had it done at Finish. There is currently one director, and many people who use autologous costal cartilage like me go there. What this means is that many people also go there for revision rhinoplasty. That’s how I interpreted it. During the first consultation, they took an X-ray for autologous costal cartilage, which I had seen a lot in reviews. I thought it didn’t mean much, but if they open the chest and it’s calcified, then close it again, you get the scar as a scar and can’t even have the surgery, so considering cases like that, I thought doing it would be much more helpful.
One month after surgery.. Right now the area under my nose is hard and swollen, and I think the under-nose hardness is because autologous costal cartilage was used. Swelling is expected at this stage... They say the nose becomes stable from the 6-month mark, but honestly, by this time, patients know whether it’s settling prettily or not. I am currently 200% satisfied with my nose. The shape? There is the shape, but they also reflected exactly the complaints I mentioned. I realized that while there are directors who just operate according to their own stubbornness, there are also places that do it like this. I don’t know why everyone is so curious about whether the consultants are kind, but they are kind. But don’t look for a kind place, please go to a place where the director is good.. After having nearly reached the point of nasal necrosis, when I see people asking things like that, I think they must still be doing okay.
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This review is a surgery review pursuing a natural-yet-defined look.