One and Half Months After my Rhinoplasty and my Nose at the Upper Part Looks Really Wide - Greece

Thanks for your answers. Yes the first picture is from before and the second is from after. Ten years ago I had problem breathing and I had an operation to correct my crooked septum. The doctor then only operated at the cartilage part of my septum, basically his way of dealing with the crooked septum was to completely remove it at the lower part!!!!!. As a result of that and of reducing the enlarged turbinates (hope my English is correct) my breathing improved a little. The appearance of my nose didn’t change back then, the doctor was not a plastic surgeon and my intention was only to improve my breathing. Being unaware back then (10 years ago) what exactly was done to my nose I continued being satisfied that my breathing improved. Year after year though the tip of my nose was falling, eventually becoming as you see in the profile before picture. So, the first reason for my operation was to improve my breathing because it was still not right and the second was to support the lower part of my nose from falling. The doctor now did that by taking implant from my ear and putting it in my nose tip. My nose collapsing like that also had created an asymmetry which is not very clear from this picture so I’ll try to dig some old pictures to show it clearer. Also the doctor now “broke” the bony part of my septum to make it more straight and improve my breathing. That is the reason I would like to believe that my nose looks and feels so swollen. My question is: Is there a way that my nose at the upper part would eventually turn out to be more wide than it used to be? Is there a way a mistake was made at the process of moving around the two little bones that form the bony part of the septum and maybe spacing them out or something so that my nose is now more wide than before?? Thanks again

Dear friend, I know how you feel cause I hav similar probs to you. I mean the nose was ok before, so was mine, but I wanted to imprve it but te resuls ar nt what I wish for. Be patient a bit and wait even a year. Hearing that there are also peole in similar situations should make us feel that there are also others, if you can see what I mean. However, pls dont be obsessed by it asyou ll get psychologically not well. Wait a bit and if you stil feel that you need a revision do it. But try to avoid such cosmeti operations. Yet, it is only a nose and yrs is still presentable, and afte yr full swelling fades away it will be better. gd luck dear. :

I guess patience is really a virtue in those cases. I guess i am either in the category that really the advice " you should wait 6-12 months for the swelling to subside" applies, or something went wrong. Time is on my side i guess:-)

yanni, who was your doctor in greece? I think you should find a very very good doctor who works on the greek celebrities and ask them what they think. Maybe your doctor did something wrong but another more experienced doctor could correct it in a 'revision surgery'? You should always get a second opinion from different plastic surgeons, get as many opinions as you can about whether this is normal or not. ???? ????!

Hello, I think im not ready to hear another opinion before the 6 month mark goes by. Others doctors dont touch recently operated patients anyway. The swelling goes down i think, painfully slowly though...I am now 2.5 months post-op and waiting to see. I dont there could ever be a reason why my nose would be thicker at the top, i mean what could the doctor have done to make that happen.... Thanks

Is the first pic from b4 and the 2nd one from after. The 2nd pic definatley looks like there is still is swelling. I cant see why you would want to change the shape of your nose in the first pic, it looked good.

Have you had a follow up appointment yet? I'd say there are By 7 weeks a fair amount of the swelling should of gone. Hope it gets better for you.

I'm not the youngest and I've been having complexes about my nose all my life and it's been holding me back. I've a large prominent nose that was also left slightly bent after breaking it in a sport's accident in my teens. Otherwise i have fine facial features. Weirdly I was ashamed to admitting I would like to have it done and also afraid of the procedure as I'd had a very bad experience when I broke it and received bad after care in a small hospital in Germany. Now that I'm getting older I really want to get it done but I haven't enough finances to get it done in the UK or Germany - so was thinking of going abroad - any other people out there that could recommend me somebody that is trustworthy and experienced. I can't really afford an after-op - so the first needs to do he job. Anybody had it done themselves? What about Dr Bugra in Greece? I just don't seem to find much feed back on rhinoplasty for him.

could you name your doctor?...

pavlidelis. I went korea and made it better. Forget about usa and europe is my advice. Korea is the way to go