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It’s been almost 3 months since my genioplasty
It’s been almost 3 months since my genioplasty and although it has improved and it doesn’t look so big anymore, I still don’t like the way my chin looks. I talked to my original surgeon who suggested we should wait 5-6 months to do a revision. I have seen two other surgeons who also suggested to wait 6 months for the tissues to heal completely, etc. I still regret getting this surgery since now I think it was completely unnecessary. I thought I was going to look “prettier” but it did totally the opposite in my head. I’ve never felt this way before, I miss the way my face used to look and now I don’t think my face will look like before again but having this procedure reversed will probably give me some of my old looks back and I think I will be happy or at least happier with that.
Genioplasty Regret / Trying to Get a Revision
I had a genioplasty of 7mm advancement a month ago and its been by far the biggest mistake of my life. Let me start by saying that the Doctor didn’t do a bad job, actually it looks “aesthetically right” so why do I hate it? I loved the way my face looked from a front view and actually I loved my face BUT I saw a couple of pics from a side view and I didn’t like how my profile looked. I found a great plastic/maxillofacial surgeon in Colombia and I decided to get a chin augmentation. I told about 10 people about what I wanted to do and 10 people told me not to do it but of course I was stubborn and I thought I could prove them wrong and I could show them that my face was going to look better.
I’m going to skip the part of talking to the surgeon and the images he photoshopped of my profile, etc. If you want to know about this let me know. When I woke up from the surgery it was basically painless except for having a sore throat and it was almost 100% painless to this day. But then I saw my face and thought WTF have I done? I immediately started crying. What they DONT tell you:
1. Your lower lip will look smaller not only because of the swelling but because the incision is inside your mouth on your lower lip and also because your skin is stretched.
2. Even if they don’t move your bone vertically the fact that they move your bone forward will make your face look longer (something I didn’t know).
Now… as I said before I loved my face and my smile before, I didn’t want to change how it looked from the front view but I didn’t know it was going to change soooo drastically. Now my face looks long and masculine and I look like a witch specially when I smile. I’ve cried almost every day since I saw my face. Almost all of the swelling is gone now and I can’t stand to look at myself in the mirror anymore. I look at my old pics, my old face and i feel terrible because i did this to myself. I’ve been trying to find information on how to reverse it but every surgeon has a different opinion. My surgeon said it’s possible to reverse it but I should wait at least 5-6 months because we need to let the mentalis muscle and the scar inside my mouth heal properly. Other surgeons say it’s better to reverse it between 6weeks and 3 months since the bone is not fully healed yet. Some say it’s a very hard procedure to do (reversing it because of chin pad or soft tissue sagging) so I don’t know what to do. I’m completely destroyed, I try not to think about it but it’s hard because just the fact of speaking reminds me of what I did since I can’t speak like before since my mouth feels so tight