As a way to repay the help I received a lot here, I'm also posting photos. I think someone I know might be here, so I'm planning to delete them soonㅠ In order, the photos are before surgery, first nose surgery (3 years and 6 months ago), and revision surgery (10 days ago). I don't have a side-view photo from before surgery. My nasal bridge was low, so I didn't like taking photos from the side. I had silicone + ear cartilage 3 years and 6 months ago, and I understand it was raised by 3 mm. I'm on day 10 after the revision surgery this time. When I had the previous surgery, the surgery was truly a mess. The glabella area was too high, so it came down almost in a straight line from my forehead, the nasal tip was too upturned, and on top of that, there was an indentation like a horizontal line drawn at the boundary between the nasal bridge and nasal tip (during the revision surgery, I found out it was the connection between cartilage pieces, and they said it had not been done properly, so it was indented like a groove). On top of that, my nasal bridge was crooked. Looking back now, my original nasal bridge was crooked in the preoperative photo too. But they just shoved in the silicone without thinking, so the nasal bridge was shaped like //. Anyway, I went through so much emotional distress, and even people seeing me for the first time would all notice and ask, 'Did you get nose surgery?'... I was really stressed, then this time I had revision surgery at a different clinic, and when I actually went in for surgery, they said the inside of my nose was really 'a total mess.' So the surgery took an extremely long time, and they said the doctor was very, very careful and worried a lot. This time I had silicone + septal cartilage, and it seems like there is still a lot of swelling in the nasal bridge and nasal tip, so I'm not sure yet, but I'm about 90% satisfied. The nasal tip is a little sharper than I wanted, so that's minus 10%. I originally like a rounded and plump bulbous nose, but now it has become a more typical nasal tip shape. This time, they said they put the thinnest silicone in the nasal bridge area, but I don't know exactly how many millimeters it is. Still, after revising the nose that had always stressed me out, I feel so relieved. Lastly.. what I felt while having revision surgery this time is, the place where I had surgery before was relatively well-known by word of mouth in Busan. There were so many people that to see the director's face even once, I had to wait and wait for ages, and even when I went to the clinic after surgery, I remember it being hard because I was exhausted from waiting. I'm certain the doctor didn't remember me at all even at the very moment he was doing my nose surgery. Even when I occasionally wanted to go check my progress, it was such a factory-like place that it wasn't easy to go to the clinic, and overall I guess I couldn't feel comfortable there. But the place where I had revision surgery this time did not have as many patients packed in as that place and was just about average, but I came to trust the doctor a lot in my own way and felt I could rely on them mentally too. They listened to even small things I said and paid attention, and it felt like I was communicating with the doctor.. Of course, maybe it was because there weren't many patients and they had time. ㅠ What I want to say is, when choosing a clinic, other things are important too, but I think you should also consider whether it's a place where you can comfortably trust the doctor and keep going...
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