Nose Surgery review at Hwi (휘) · 2023-06-30

I’m a man who is 4 months into recovery after undergoing nose reconstruction at Hui Plastic Surgery. I had osteotomy restoration, silicone removal, septal extension removal, and various other procedures. The nasal tip was raised again with ear cartilage. To say the result first: from a nose with zero volume, like a tube with all the air let out, a pinched, skinny, long, disgusting nose, I regained the proper width I wanted, the tip became round, and the nostril wings that looked pinched were successfully reconstructed into a plumper shape. Only ear cartilage was used, and I currently have absolutely no ear deformity; everything is fine. I did not do any scar care for the columellar scar, and now it is barely visible. -------- From here on, there is also content about the hospital where I had my first surgery and the hospitals I consulted for revision surgery. -------- The first hospital where I had surgery was one I trusted 100% just because it was through someone a acquaintance knew. I had a 5-minute consultation, lay down, and then they threw away all the advantages my original nose had, and I ended up with a chopstick, chalk-like nose that defies description, a skinny, hollow, long, pinched disgusting nose. I lived like that for over a year. The only thing I had clearly asked for was that I did not want a chalk nose, but they just made it into a chalk nose anyway.^^ Looking back, why did they even do the osteotomy, and why did they correct the bulbous nose... I have a lot to say but I’ll stop there. I even searched for ways to restore a bulbous nose because of how bad it was. My nose had originally had natural volume, but after surgery it was just clamped down like a deflated tube, and for 1 year and 1 month after the first surgery I truly felt what it was like to have my life go to ruin. I felt real despair. I was so careless about surgery and ended up getting badly hurt. I already knew about Hui Plastic Surgery while I was collecting information for revision surgery, but there were so few reviews that it was not a top-priority consultation hospital. Then, while searching for osteotomy restoration, I happened to find the doctor’s anonymously run blog and contacted them through a comment. The next day I got a call, and since consultation was available the following week, I visited. Before going to Hui Plastic Surgery for a consultation, I first went to another hospital for a revision consultation. (It is famous in this community. It was my first-choice hospital.) But there, they treated me like a delusional patient and refused surgery. (I’m thankful now.) When I mentioned osteotomy restoration, they said I needed a spreader graft. I really believed that. I thought that was what had to be done. After looking at the CT, they said, “For you, it’s actually a case where you didn’t even get the benefit of the osteotomy?” “There are many people in much worse condition.” If it isn’t severe, are you supposed to just live with an awkwardly botched result?? No... ever since I had my original nose, I’ve had the habit of touching the nasal bones, so I know better than anyone how thin it has become now. So when I said, “You said there was no osteotomy effect, but for this and that reason I definitely feel it has become thinner,” they replied, “Well, you did have an osteotomy, so it would have become thinner.” It was really like that, just wordplay. I couldn’t feel a trace of expertise, but I guess marketing really is amazing. It wasn’t even a proper examination, and they didn’t really look at my face properly. They barely looked at the photos I brought and just kept writing the whole time. I strongly felt that it was the kind of hospital that creates an atmosphere where patients give up on aesthetic expectations. But this time, I had osteotomy restoration without a spreader graft. A spreader graft also has limitations, and it should only be done when it is truly necessary. I was not a case that needed it. If I had begged and pleaded enough to get surgery at that hospital, I don’t know what would have happened after getting a spreader graft that I didn’t even need... They wrote about it online as if it were the correct answer. There are so many patients whose lives are on the line because their faces were ruined by osteotomy, and it makes me angry. I think it would be better to honestly say they cannot do osteotomy restoration rather than pretending otherwise. I guess that is how they survive, because in the end doctors are people too. But plastic surgery is not something you can buy and throw away if you don’t like it. It is irreversible, and there are far too many doctors who act as if it were a disposable object. I went back to the first hospital where I had surgery, thinking of the acquaintance, and even went for revision consultations twice because I wanted to finish things properly. (Of course, if I had known as much about plastic surgery as I do now, I would never have gone. Back then I knew nothing.) The director said there is absolutely no hospital that listens to requests in such detail and told me to go find one if I could... lol He said he had done the surgery well and that the balance was perfect now, and then started gaslighting me by asking what osteotomy restoration was even for... Even when I showed two sets of photos, one clearly giving a pinched, chalk-like nose feeling and another with a non-chalk, masculine nose with volume, he said both looked pretty to him. Isn’t that basically admitting he has no aesthetic sense? lol Even if I brought celebrity photos, I was scolded for saying “that’s just a celebrity.” Even if I explained the parts I wanted in detail, I was scolded for talking about the feeling. What exactly was I supposed to do? When I said my nose seemed too long, the doctor said the problem was my weak chin and recommended a chin implant (I really almost did it), and when I asked how to solve the dark shadow along the side of the nasal bone caused by the osteotomy, they said I could try filling the area where the nasal bone had been osteotomized with filler. I heard Doctor Hwang says you should absolutely never get filler after nose surgery.^^ If I had had revision surgery at the place where I had my first operation, I would have crossed a truly grotesque, irreversible river. Those disgusting hospitals that gaslight you and then change their attitude after surgery? There are still plenty of them. At the other hospitals I went to, when I asked for consultations, since I really don’t know the terminology well, I explained the things I disliked in terms of how they looked, from the pinched nostrils to why my nose became skinny and long, and how the tip droops and looks like a witch’s nose whenever I make an expression, and there are just dozens of strange things, but because I explained it all in terms of feeling, they treated me like I had a mental illness. They said that from their point of view it was fine lol. There are so many hospitals that gaslight you by making it seem like the patient is the one with the problem. I truly think I was lucky to escape this plastic-surgery minefield after only revision surgery. -------- The introduction got long, but Hui Plastic Surgery was shocking during the consultation in a good way. At Hui, they explained the things I had been wondering about in such a professional way, with surgical-method and anatomical explanations, that although there were things I personally didn’t understand, the consultation was actually fun. First of all, it was so comfortable to have a conversation free from the patient-blaming gaslighting I had experienced. Like at the hospitals I had visited before, I described the parts I didn’t like in terms of feeling, and they really understood exactly what I needed explained. They told me in detail why my nose had become like that, how it could be improved, and how they would perform the surgery. The frustration I had carried for so long was completely lifted, and the photos of revision patients they showed during the consultation were exactly the kind of feeling I wanted, which was decisive. After almost an hour of consultation, I had no reason to look anywhere else, so I canceled all the other consultations I had booked, asked the coordinator for the earliest possible surgery date, and had the operation two weeks later. The result was a success, and the year or so that I had spent in ruin after the first surgery feels like a dream. (I had gone into the first surgery knowing nothing and without researching, and for revision I was planning to gather information from about 10 places and go to consult everywhere, thinking revision had to succeed.) Anyway, Director Hwang Se-hwi of Hui Plastic Surgery is an outstanding doctor. He has a high reputation in the field of plastic surgery, and in terms of both skill and character he is second to none. While I was gathering information, Hui was the only hospital that placed importance on the frontal view of the nose. They really make the contour of the nasal tip well. (This is not just me saying it. More than a decade ago, he already researched the importance of cartilage repositioning, restoration of the support structure, and methods to prevent the tip from drooping, and first presented them in academic circles. I understand that many doctors have since been influenced by that work.) If you want an elevated nose that is not pointed, not a chopstick or chalk nose, but has natural volume and a rounded nasal tip, I highly recommend them. (I am not talking about a bulbous or overly spread-out look.) And you should know that no hospital in the world can make 100% of all patients who undergo surgery successful. However, it is definitely possible to tell which hospitals have fewer dissatisfaction issues and complications and which have more. That’s what plastic surgery is. So you need to be careful, and hospitals that change their attitude after surgery should not be chosen. If you want zero complications for life and 100% success even after a 5-minute consultation, I recommend not getting surgery at all. I hope my nose lasts forever, but I also think you never know. Doctor Hwang is someone who takes responsibility for his own patients, so I will trust him and live with peace of mind. Once you have plastic surgery, you have to worry about it and manage it for the rest of your life. Even so, if you are going ahead with surgery, you really need to choose the hospital carefully, and building rapport with the doctor during consultation is extremely important. Rushing through a 5-minute consultation and just lying down thinking, “Well, they’ll take care of me,” is simply leaving it to chance. If something feels off during the consultation, walk away. People looking into their first surgery probably won’t feel this strongly about these things. There are so many people doing second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh surgeries... and that is absolutely not because those people are stupid. From my own experience, becoming a revision patient happens incredibly fast. You really have to choose the hospital well. At least Hui is definitely one of the few trustworthy hospitals in Korea. Of course, there may be other truly excellent hospitals like Hui, but Hui is my destination, so I don’t know information about other good hospitals. If some people reading my review think this is just the usual story of someone whose surgery turned out well recommending a hospital, that’s fine. For the record, I’m stating the facts either way, and I didn’t even write half of what I wanted to say. Even without my review, Hui is already a hospital that gets patients through referrals, and I’m just someone who thinks that if even one person who got fooled by ads, or who is about to suffer because of them, or who knows nothing, can avoid this minefield after reading my post, then that is enough. And you have to look at the nose over the long term. You can’t tell from right after surgery to one month later. Because of swelling, it all looks volumized. There are really many people who had a pretty nose right after surgery to within a month, only to experience the magic of swelling going down later and ending up with a skinny chopstick, chalk nose. Please do not trust sideways-view review after review, one-month reviews, or even reviews written before one month has passed. Especially if you do not want a front-view chopstick, chalk nose like mine. Whatever the request, Hui is not a hospital that makes chopstick, chalk noses. That is just the aesthetic sense Doctor Hwang Se-hwi has. Anyway, I’ll stop here.

Doctor

황세휘

Price

₩7,000,000

Median for Nose Surgery: ₩4,400,000

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