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Did my surgery fail or did my surgeon mess up? (Photos)

Britney346Dec 23, 2018
I had a septoplasty about five months ago and I still can not breathe and now my nostril is going kind of sideways and the other one is straight up up before they were going both straight up they were almost even to each other (nothings perfect) but now I have one completely off.

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