Extreme Makeover Part 2 - Pretoria, South Africa

I'm ok thanks. Just really pissed off because I wanted to get the rhino and lipo done close together so as to only take leave from work once. Now that plan is wrecked. I booked in May.

Hi, how is your nose now? Are there any changes to it? Did you end up getting a revision? Who did you go to. This is so scary for me because I went to the same surgeon and my nose is also curved to the right. I has been there since the cast came off. It is just more pronounced as the swelling has gone down.

From what I've found out double specialisation in both is uncommon here in SA. Facial plastic surgery as a separate speciality doesn't seem to exist here either, but often ENT's and Plastic surgeons work together so that might be your best bet.

Anonymous posting ('expressing an experience'), unfortunately, allows people to lie and spread distortions. No medical files were released, no names, no confidential information; just a correction. Why is that a crime? Robert Fysh.

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Sharon, thank you for providing the guidelines. I once moderated a forum - of a more technical nature - for three years. Intervention requires tact, fairness, and firmness. We never permitted visitors to post distortions or unfair attacks on the credibility of persons not in a position to reply or defend their professional reputations against allegations made by disappointed or unhappy visitors to the forum. That consideration, if you want to cultivate a credible, helpful source of information, should be a cornerstone of a forum of this nature. I have known and worked with the surgeon under discussion for 10 years. Not once in this decade have I known him to consciously act against in the best interests of a patient; the patient’s best interest is always his first concern in all his endeavours to treat people in a complex field; and Rhinoplasty is a complex form of 3-D cosmetic surgery. There is none more complicated than that speciality in this field. A second notable characteristic of this surgeon is his willingness to help colleagues in the medical profession. A third; he will never, and never has offered to guarantee a perfect result. In certain cases, he will even turn away patients and discourage surgery if he feels that a patient is looking for perfection. He will also sometimes tell a patient looking for a perfect nose that ‘Perfection is the enemy of a good result. ‘ That’s one of the pointers he picked up through a mentoring process in the United States under some of America’s best known and most successful surgeons, and separately, through advanced courses offered under the auspices of the American Academy of Facial, Plastic and re to Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) of which he is an international member. So, while I have empathy for visitors to your forum, I do not think it ethical for members to pass anonymous, careless, and ill-considered judgments on a surgeon from behind the safety of a user name. Posts like, at worst (in isolated cases), constitute malicious gossip and simply, it is not fair. It certainly does help the cause of the medical profession, or people in that profession genuinely concerned with outcomes and results. To conclude, I did not post personal names, or details that could identify any patient on a public forum. The person concerned could have been one of the many millions in the world who daily go online. If the tone and specificity of the post offended certain visitors, I apologise. Thank you allowing me the courtesy of a reply. I will endeavour to adhere to your guidelines.