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Nose Re-Surgery

I'm going to have everything removed. For the open roof caused by shaving down a hump too much, can it be covered with something other than osteotomy or spreader grafting?

They butchered a hump that wasn't even there because they wanted to put in thick silicone, so an open roof of about 15 cm formed in that area. To cover it, another hospital took a small amount of septal cartilage and did a thin spreader graft, but instead my breathing became strange. It's open, but feels stuffy and blocked; anyway, it's not normal. The doctor says it was done thinly so it doesn't affect the airway, but when I look online, there are many people whose airway became abnormal after spreader grafting. So I'm thinking of just removing everything: the silicone, the spreader graft, the nasal tip work, and the support strut. But then the hump open roof will be exposed. Osteotomy or...

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