![]() That doesn't even cover surgeons that use graft materials to add/augment a nose or how your nose will look if bones widen when a hump is removed, too much is rasped off, too much cartilage is taken out, and later when you get a revision, tip cartilages are sutured together to make it look "piggy". The bigger trouble you are in, the more it will cost in revision. With repeated trauma is gets weaker, and with each surgery.successive physicians have to take into account that stuff has moved. Each surgery made things worse because with each you are not just altering (suturing, moving, removing) your nasal parts-the nose is like a house. I had my first surgery at 18, I had the last at 25 when my nose collapsed, and now, at 28, I have a collapsed nose and am a mouth breather. That's just stuff you may not know until it's too late. For rhinoplasty, that includes-nasal valve collapse after a second rhinoplasty (I have it, can't breath, nose is unsupported on my bony framework, cartilage collapsed, because the two surgeons over the course of ten years, had moved or resutured everything and in revision the incompetent asshole I went to made things worse), a wider tip or nose due to an incompetent surgeon resecting too much of your bones, saddle nose, an over-shortened or "rotated" tip that looks too feminine for you, a pinched nasal tip, an overprojected nasal tip, inverted v deformity (the upper bridge caves in and the upper lateral cartilage collapse, creating a bony-looking upside-down v).not to mention, pain. You are permanently changing your body and deserve to know hear from a patient about how to think about this, and some of the risks. Here is what I wish I had googled before my own surgery: (technique my surgeon used) risk rhinoplasty. Watch a youtube of open or closed rhinoplasty for example. (Note: those reviews that say, "Oh, this was so painless! Perfect! He's an artist"-are bullshit that may be written by family or staff of the surgeon.)ģ) acquaint yourself with it: learn what a rhinoplasty (or genioplasty, whatever) is before you get it done. If my nasal "hump" was small enough that it wasn't noticeable looking at me from the front, I don't think I'd let a surgeon rasp or break it at all.Ģ) go for someone board certified with years of experience on the procedure you seek him/her out for and great reviews that sound written by real people who describe stuff like pain and aftercare of your desired procedure. You're altering bone matter and the structures that allow you to breath. Your upper lateral cartilages are under that "hump". Case in point: there are too many patients that have a hump altered. ![]() Go for someone that appreciates at the end of the day it is a priority to make what you already have better without compromising the integrity of you nose. For noses, those that are crooked, or flat and wide (that's me), or male rhinoplasty. Go for a specialist in the procedure of your choice, someone with experience working on faces (or noses) like yours. Know exactly what will happen to you and get it in writing (osteotomies, skin defatting, etc) and also talk about it with the surgeon and write it down. It's not to say they don't care about your well being but you are the one whose body will be changed. If you go through with surgery-the pre-college nose job (mine was)-find someone you trust with reviews from patients that say, "This person cares about his work" or "This person cares about and is cooperative with patients", something along those lines.ġ) don't rely on your parents to do the picking for you and go for the cheapest surgeon. Most of you aren't done growing into your faces. This is a medical procedure, and the changes in shape that may occur when (for rhino) your septum or nasal cartilage/bones are altered might be something you strongly dislike, especially when a tip is reoriented. Realize first of all that you risk coming out with something so, so much worse. I'm writing this because I know at least some of you are posting to confirm that you "need" surgery.
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