Two years ago, after my first surgery, I developed inflammation at the one-week mark, and after that I ended up going into the operating room every week. For a month, I went to the hospital almost every day to get antibiotics and checkups. Over that month, I went into the operating room a total of 4 times, and then had a dispute with the hospital that did the surgery. After the inflammation was controlled, I looked and my nose had become shorter and looked somehow upturned. Originally I had a bulbous nose with a slightly upturned nostril shape and not much columella, but nothing was improved by the surgery haha. If anything, the columella went in even more. It was finally controlled after a month, so I was scared of revision surgery and didn’t have information, so I kept putting it off. Then inflammation again. I didn’t even know whether it was inflammation, so I went to an ENT clinic, and the doctor…
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