Surgery Coming Soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - CA

No i am not i did consider going back to the same one only bc/ of the price but i thougt to myself if he didnt get it right the 1st time he will not get it right the second time. I found new surgeon that i feel much more confident in :)

You are probably right. I am in the same boat as you. I had my surgery 8+ months ago and it didn't turn out that good so I am looking to have a revision but I am on the fence when it comes to my original surgeon. He swears to me he can what he calls "hit the home run" and make me happy but I am just not sure. I just feel like I should have had a better outcome to begin with. Although he had to work with a broken nose which I know is more difficult than just doing a rhinoplasty I still feel that I should not have had this sort of outcome. My original guy is ENT and plastic surgeon only does face and neck.

From the sounds of it you seem very uncertain of your original surgeon and it seems like you do not trust him either and that is exactly how i felt about my first surgeon. keep in mind that with any surgeon you choose, you must feel confident in him and.feel like he is being honest with you and if you dont feel like that with him do not go back to him. If i were in your position, as i was, i would not go back with him he should have been able to “hit the home run“ the first time. He has proved to you only that he cannot provide you with your ideal results. You can seek ouz other doctors with a more critica.eye since you are now more aware of what you want in a surgeon.

Seek out other doctors with a more critical eye*

Yes I am concerned he will screw it up more but at the same point I felt like he had to work with a broken nose which is more difficult. I have already seen 6 surgeons and all agree with my nose issues and all pretty much have the same surgical plan as well as my original guy. I only liked one so far but will probably go see one more end of this month. I am having commitment issues with these doctors. Scared to death to go through yet another surgery.

Well hopefully you will find a surgeon where you feel somewhat secure and confident in him. I am still ambivalent about going with your original surgeon. I say keep looking. Instead of being scared of surgery be excited that you are having another opportunity zo make your nose even better!

Everyone I talk to and not the surgeons is saying I should not go with my original guy. I am frankly afraid going with him but on the other hand I have seen some of his work personally and not someone he told me to look up and they look great. It makes me wonder what the hack happened to me.

What ive been told before is that every nose is different and we all have limitations to what we can/cannot get, i cnt see your nose but like ive said before u need to trust your doctor

I do understand that and I didn't want anything but to straighten my nose and take the bump out that was due to the accident. He narrowed my nose which I am not sure why as he didn't really explain, he lifted my tip which is ok if it stayed where it is, and he shortened my nose which is fine because its good length. I wish that he left my nose a little higher at the bride and didn't narrow it so much. One thing though I will say is I can breath better than I have in 20 years. I have always had breathing problems since I was a kid and this surgery completely fixed my breathing but my cosmetic outcome is not as great. At this point I am just looking to fix the nose I have now without making it shorter or narrower. I am told by all the doctors that I am very realistic and not asking for much. That is why I am confused as to why my nose turned out the way that it did. Its not like I brought a picture and said "make me look like this" I told my surgeon that I liked my nose before the accident and I know that it will never look the same but I want it close to what it was before. He said no problem and I ended up with a different looking nose. But again I would be totally ok with it if it was symmetrical and without a divot on the side. I just don't know if I can trust him again. :( Did you pic your doctor already? Is he in your state?

My primary rhioplasty surgeon told me "yes, yes, i can do that!" He told me everything i wanted to hear and of course having no real experience on what kind of surgeon i should be looking for etc. i went with him and everything he said he would do like making my tip more pointy, lifted, and making my nostrils symetrical was NOT done. He lied to me. He made me have high hopes and i was depressed for so long after my surgery because i thought it was going to be an amazing result when it wasn't. I did pick my doctor already and he is in my state specifically in Beverly Hills. I showed him a photo of the ideal nose i wanted and he told me that what i was seeking was not possible considering the anatomy i have, however, he did show me what was possible with my nose and told me i can create a "better version of you". He said it was up to me if i wanted to continue on with choosing to do surgery but he warned me that my nose is not going to be exactly what i showed him in the photo... i pondered the idea a bit and decided i wanted to follow through in becoming a better version of my current self!

He does other body surgeries as well however his specialties are breast and rhinoplasty. but to answer ur question he doesnt specialize in just head and neck :/

I also lost confidence in my surgeon. I went to him many times for other procedures and was very happy. However, noses are very tricky. I refused a free surgury because I felt that noses are not his expertise.

Go with your gut feeling.

so I assume you did not get your rhinoplasty done with this surgeon?

i am and i hope its right!

I reallly hope everything turns out the way i want. My surger is june 12th a week from this wednesday! Im so thankful for all the support from my community! And i will keep you guys posted for sure!!

i agree with you entirely there is nothing better than hearing about surgeons from someone who has had surgery with them before, and even better, on the same surgery you are considering like revision rhinoplasty!

Thank you!!!!! You will hear from me soon :)

Thank youu so much!!

I reallly hope i do too! Thanks for the support :)

Thanks much :))

Thanks for all your support it means a lot to me, and cannot wait to hear about your future surgery as well. I hope that by September-November time your nervousness of having surgery fades. I am crossing my fingers as well! He did not break any bone because I was happy with my side profile and only concerned with the tip of my nose. Since my surgery was only a a tip refinement rhinoplasty he actually removed excess cartilage from both sides of my tip and i believe he did some suturing as well to make my nose more pointy. He did mention to me about shaving little bit of bone, only where my nasal bone and tip first meet, to lessen the roundness of my tip