Most posts are positive, and I also wrote positive posts up until 1 year after removal. But among the people I keep in touch with, there are a few who only saw unconditionally positive posts, got removal surgery, and regretted it. So if you are not in a situation with complications, I’m posting this too to say that you should think carefully before reaching a conclusion.
As for what kind of psychological changes happen after removal, when there is a lot of swelling after removal, that appearance is not the final result but swelling, so the fact that you removed it actually feels relieving and so good that you feel like you could fly. Then when the contracture period comes, you live with depression and worries about your nose again, and once the contracture period passes and you enter the stable period, you stop paying attention to your nose altogether. Your mind becomes so much more at ease. But then after 1 or 2 years pass, you start to feel that your face has changed a lot. The proportions are off and the chin looks more protruded. I thought it might be a midface issue, so I even tried fat grafting, but it only helped at that time. Once it absorbed, it went back to square one. In the end, you realize that because the nose that used to hold the center high and give the face dimension is gone, the overall facial proportions have been disrupted. Leaving aside the softer, more comfortable impression and the nose shape, I think the disrupted proportions are the biggest side effect. Because the whole face looks strange. People who have anterior cheekbones and some nasal bridge may be exceptions, but in my case, my whole face ended up looking pressed flat in a straight line.
After removal, I even used to thank Dr. JHR, and he did the surgery well. He supported it well so it wouldn’t lift. But when silicone is removed, there are clearly limits that even a doctor cannot do anything about. I think removal needs to be watched continuously for several years.
Honestly, if silicone suited your face, when you remove it, to put it nicely, your impression becomes very gentle. To put it bluntly, you end up looking easy to take advantage of. The nasal bridge looks pushed back compared with the original nose, so the center somehow looks absent and flatly pressed down. That feeling where, without contour shading, it really looks like you have no nose.
For a while I was into the natural look, and I was so happy after removal, but I also started thinking that naturalness is not everything. Even when men say someone looks overly plastic or whatever, in the end they still date pretty women even if they had surgery and it shows. There’s no need to place my value in other people’s hands, but when I looked in the mirror, I really looked ugly to myself, I kept thinking I looked better before, and it was so hard. So I actually developed an appearance complex and my self-esteem got lower.
I didn’t know one nose could do this, but the human face really changes from one nose. So in the end, I put only the nasal bridge back in, and maybe because I only did the bridge, the nasal tip looks natural and it doesn’t feel elongated. It feels like just the bridge was slightly raised, so I’m satisfied now, but I think I’ll only know after watching it for several years too.
After removal surgery, instead of only looking at very short-term reviews, look for long-term reviews.
The nose types I recommend removal for are: a nose where the natural nose was prettier, an inflamed nose, a witch-like nose with the nasal tip raised forward too aggressively, and a nose with botched nasal lengthening. In this last case, removing only the nasal tip to reduce the sense of length is also good.
If silicone suits you but it is too thick, too thin, or too obvious, I recommend replacement rather than removal.
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