This is a review of an absurd nose surgery experience. I had surgery at a place called O M O P M. I am someone who does not drink, smoke, or drink coffee at all, and I have a precise and meticulous personality. I am leaving a detailed review.
My right nostril showed a little more than my left nostril, so my nostrils looked uneven. I visited for a consultation, and they recommended artificial dermis graft surgery only for my right nostril, so I had the surgery.
The important point everyone needs to know here is that when a patient is dissatisfied because the nostrils are uneven, the specialist doctor should know better where in the nostril the graft should be placed to make the nostril shape match. The patient is not a specialist, and there is no need for the patient to tell the doctor exactly that dermis must be grafted to this specific area. Because the patient is not a plastic surgery specialist, that could be the patient’s own mistaken judgment, and if the patient requests it that way, the surgery could result in an incorrect shape. Also, even if the patient did request that, a specialist doctor should make an accurate judgment, inform the patient that the shape would become strange, and not perform the surgery that way. That is a condition of being a skilled doctor.
Of course, the doctor should judge and diagnose that grafting here will make the nostril shape match, inform the patient, and the patient trusts that and undergoes surgery.
To get to the main point, I had dermis graft surgery on my right nostril. It was grafted accurately to the necessary area, and it was not that I had a side effect, but too little was grafted, so the surgery was done with almost no change in the nostril shape. Also, because it was artificial dermis, it was absorbed over time.
One year after the surgery, I visited the hospital and said, “If it was going to be like this, why did you take money and do the surgery? If correcting the uneven nostrils the way I wanted from the beginning was difficult, and you had said it was impossible, I simply would not have had the surgery. The money was a waste. Look at the photos. Anyone can see this is almost the same as before surgery, isn’t it? I would like you to just give me a refund.”
Then they said they would do one more surgery for free, and if it was still similar then, they would refund me, so I had surgery again.
On the day of surgery, I visited and requested that they graft a little more in the same place as the previous surgery to fix the uneven nostrils. Then the doctor did not even take preoperative photos. He pointed to my right nostril with his own hand and only said, “This area looks a bit sunken,” and went into surgery. There was no consultation at all where we looked in the mirror together and discussed that dermis would be placed up to here. Since it was a surgery I had already had once, I trusted that he would graft it properly in the correct position and went into surgery.
The result was that he did not graft it exactly only where the dermis had been grafted in the previous surgery. This time, he grafted artificial dermis all the way to a line too far forward on my right nostril, creating a severely uneven nostril shape that anyone could see.
At first, I thought it looked that way because the surgical area was swollen. On the third day after surgery, I realized it had been grafted in the wrong place and contacted the hospital, but the doctor gave the absurd answer that it seemed there had been a communication problem before surgery.
Because it is preferable to remove artificial dermis before it integrates, I had removal surgery one week after surgery, as soon as the stitches were removed.
What was even more absurd was what the doctor said on the day of the removal surgery. In this kind of case, he should reassure the patient before surgery, say it will be removed well, and then proceed with surgery. But before surgery, the doctor pointed at my nose with his hand that day and said, “Should I put it here? Or should I put it here?” He said that when he asked me that and I said, “Please put it here,” he thought, “This doesn’t seem right,” but put the artificial dermis there anyway. I was shocked and said, “When did I ever say that? Why are you lying?” I said that because I was so shocked.
Isn’t that truly absurd? I swear, as I wrote above, we never had that kind of conversation before surgery, but he lied. And let’s say, exactly as the doctor said, that before surgery he really asked me that and I told him to put it in the wrong area. As I said above, even if the patient wanted the procedure that way, is it normal for a doctor with normal intelligence to think, as he said, that doing it that way would make the shape strange, but then say nothing to the patient that surgery should not be done that way and just perform the surgery? He does not even know there is a flaw in his own words and is saying things like that thoughtlessly to defend his own negligence.
And the biggest problem is that the artificial dermis was removed, but because the surgical area was cut open and sutured again after only one week, a very large, raised scar formed inside my nostril. The doctor said the scar would disappear with time, but that was completely untrue.
I received two triamcinolone injections at that hospital, but there was almost no change. I no longer trusted that hospital, so I got a diagnosis at a scar plastic surgery clinic. They said it was because the skin had stretched a lot, so triamcinolone injections would not be effective, and the scar tissue could only be removed by incisional surgery. They also said that if the scar inside the nose was removed, the nostril shape could change, so I should definitely go to a place specializing in rhinoplasty for a consultation.
So I went for consultations at famous hospitals and even a university hospital plastic surgery department. The result was that the scar inside the nostril could be removed surgically, but if it was removed, the operated nostril would become smaller, making it even more different from the left nostril shape, and the uneven nostrils would become more noticeable. So they said it would be better not to have removal surgery and to leave it as it is.
And because I thought scar surgery would cause a change in the nostril shape, before visiting other hospitals, I also asked the doctor at the hospital where I had the surgery in advance. I asked whether removing the scar inside the nostril surgically would change the nostril shape, and he said it would not, because only the raised part would be removed.
I do not know whether this doctor truly does not know or whether he is lying, but he does not properly tell patients the truth. The way he acted was extremely chilling, and it left me with trauma.
If he had simply performed scar surgery and the patient then said the nostril shape had become strange, was he going to insist that it had not? Every other hospital says that if the scar inside the nostril is surgically removed, the nostril shape changes. Are those doctors lying?
Anyway, everyone, please be careful when getting plastic surgery, and get it from a doctor with an aesthetic eye.