Everyone who really wants nose surgery, choose your hospital carefully

I’ll start with what I want to say 1. There are doctors who recommend surgery very cautiously "If you do alar reduction, scarring is inevitable. How much scarring remains depends on your skin’s healing ability and skin type, so you have to leave it to luck. Alar reduction is also a surgery that can’t be reversed once you reduce it, so think carefully." There are doctors who say things like this, you know? It means they’re counseling you honestly, so ask as many questions as possible during the consultation Even if I asked about surgical methods recommended by other hospitals, they explained them well 2. If you’re really going to do your nose, it’s best to make it as natural as possible Before my revision surgery, I think I could say my nose shape was slightly closer to glamorous than naturally defined It wasn’t an extremely pointy and high nose, but it definitely had a three-dimensional look This time, after total removal, I had revision surgery done naturally I’ll write below why I had it done this way But natural doesn’t mean it lacks dimension The three-dimensional shape of my nose is still well preserved, but the nasal bridge and nasal tip just became a bit more natural, and I think that suits me better Natural = unnoticeable / I don’t think that’s it Natural = suits me very naturally / that’s how I feel After two nose surgeries, that’s how I felt... if that’s wrong, then I guess I still have a long way to go Now I’ll tell you why I had removal first and then revision surgery My nasal tip had lifted, so I suspected contracture and went around to hospitals Most of the hospitals I went to were places that mainly did removal only or removal followed by reconstruction When the doctors diagnosed my nose, they said, "It’s contracture, or it seems contracture has started," and because of that, "I think it would be best to remove all the silicone now." I wondered, could this be overtreatment? So while reading consultation reviews and surgery reviews related to removal, I also visited a doctor people said "counsels honestly," and that doctor also recommended that removal would be better It meant I had to remove everything inside my nose But my original nasal tip was droopy too (before my first surgery), and my nasal bridge had also been worked on because of a hump During consultations, a few doctors looked at my CT and said that if I removed everything, there was a high chance a step-off would form from the dorsum to the nasal tip and it could come out looking pinched. They said I should assume a step-off would almost certainly occur and plan the surgery direction around that Because of the contracture, I didn’t want to put silicone back in, and since ear cartilage had been used in my first surgery, I wondered if I would have to use costal cartilage, but a doctor specializing in noses said it could be done using septal cartilage, so I used septal cartilage But they did say that if my septal cartilage had been small, or if I had wanted a higher and more pointed nose, there would have been no choice but to use costal cartilage The nose-specialist doctor said that if I wasn’t greedy, we should use septal cartilage, since it was usable And the doctor said, as a personal opinion, they thought it would be better not to get greedy and make it too high But I didn’t feel greedy either. I just hoped no problems would happen with my nose, and after removal, I only wanted a smooth nose rather than a bumpy one The doctor’s opinion was also to make it as natural as possible, and I agreed, so I had the surgery I had revision surgery without an implant, and they used septal cartilage and posterior auricular fascia to make it come out as smooth as possible while adjusting the nasal tip angle again It’s been a little over a month now, and honestly, in one corner of my mind I had thoughts like, would I regret it if I made it natural...? Everyone, I think natural is the best for the nose... And I think a doctor who communicates well is someone who reflects my opinions properly while matching my situation