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Original surgery April 2023 - can I make my nose look how it did 2 -3 weeks post surgery? (Photos)

I had primary rhinoplasty, April 2023. Around 2–3 weeks after surgery I absolutely loved my result. As healing progressed it became noticeably smaller, less projected, and slightly shorter. My original surgeon believes the tip support weakened over time. I’m not trying to make my nose smaller. Honestly, I just want it to look the way it did around 2–3 weeks after surgery, maybe with just a little more length. I believe that my nose had better projection and looked much more balanced with the rest of my face. As it healed, it became too small and recessed for my features, and that’s what I’m hoping to fix. My nose looks nothing like I expected it to. I know swelling goes down after rhinoplasty, but I didn’t expect it to change this much. The shape I loved early on gradually disappeared, and now it feels like the structure completely collapsed compared to what I thought I was healing toward. 1.Is the look I had around 2–3 weeks after surgery something that could realistically be recreated, or was that mostly just swelling? If it isn’t realistic, what is the closest result you think I could achieve? 2.If you looked at my before photos, my 2-week photos, and how my nose looks now, what do you think changed the most? What do you think happened during healing? 3.My biggest fear is loving my nose again right after surgery and then watching it slowly change over the next year. What would you do differently this time to give me the best chance of keeping my result long-term?

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