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Went for a Lip Lift and Got a Botched Nose Job
It is really hard to figure out where to start when you have so many things to complain for a devastating 6 months!
I contacted Mr. Gurkan for lip lift 6 months ago. I have chosen him specifically because he was practicing a distinctive lip lift technique, endonasal, which I believed was right for me. Basically he hides some of the scar inside the nose and cut into nasal sills. Since I had no prominent nasal sills, I thought I would benefit this surgery. He was rather open about nasal changes and deformities and warned me that my nostrils would be larger to some degree. I went for it knowing this fact. However, the changes in my nose are beyond acceptable. To begin with, I didn’t have the prettiest nose beforehand. On the contrary my nose was manifesting alar retraction as a remainder of previous rhinoplasty. Yet he changed my nose to some extent that whoever looks at my face they stare at my nose. I received so many comforting (heartbreaking for me) feedback from my social circle. They felt sorry for me. Not because I have a huge nose, but a weird looking, unnatural and funny looking nose. At first glance, even strangers recognize something is off on face. I try to avoid going out whenever possible, I am forced to be antisocial.
The worst part is that, before surgery, he had told me “if something like this happens, it would be easy to fix with revision rhinoplasty”. So I didn’t mind possible distortions. However, in the last weeks I have been declined by two surgeons (who performs primarily revision rhinoplasties). He gave me a nose that even most skilled surgeons can’t promise to fix it considerably. This was more devastating than the botched surgery itself, because now I feel hopeless and cheated.
I am not done. In fact, I am just beginning.
My horrible nose aside. I had rather poor scarring due to mostly doctor’s fault and neglect. He calls this scarless lip lift, he hides the scar inside your nose but I had scar problems on four different areas.
First right under my nose, in the middle. After removing stitches (actually you will see he couldn’t remove all of them), he told me I had infection under my nose and prescribed hydrogen peroxide. I followed his instructions for about ten days, however things become much much worse. Besides I hadn’t got any other infection symptoms, so I thought something was wrong and get a consultation from a hospital. It turned out that I did not have infection but wound separation. By using hydrogen peroxide I have made the scar bigger. The specialist told me to quit using Hydrogen peroxide right away and recommended using hydrogel and saline wash cleaning. Luckily, she knew what she was doing and saved me from more scarring. Her instructions cleared the wound bed and closed the wound in second application. So my wound was separated due to poor stitching or my fault (believe me I did stop talking for 2 weeks to heal properly and no to disturb incisions). You decide. But one thing is clear, it got worse due to Kayabasoglu’s misguidance.
Goodbye so called scarless lip lift.
Second is the side of my nasal wing. Even though the wound seems to be closed there is a gap between my nose and cheek junction and by stretching my skin it opens wide. It also has some bumps on the incision line.
Next is the scar inside my same nostril. He hid the scar inside my nose which turned out to be a hypertrophic scar, even though it is inside my nose you can clearly see it (thanks to huge nostrils) and it resembles dried snot. Currently I am hoping it doesn’t progress or grow. Yet this is the only part I can’t blame Kayabasoglu. Though it is still frustrating for me considering I had to endure so many complications!
Anyway, the most exciting part is coming. When I was 6 weeks post op, I discovered a blue stitch inside my other nostril which had always remained hard and stiff and never resolved. I gently tried to remove it with a tweezer before even realizing it was a really stitch. Who would thought that? After taking macro shots with flash on, it was right there, clearly a few stitches were left. Since it is attached firmly to my nose there may be even more stitches underneath. It is not just a simple stitch remnant that my body dispose of, he left it there intact. Also my skin had brown discoloration and patches in the same region maybe due to this. Since he never cared to follow up his patients, I decided to seek another surgeons help for this issue.
Speaking of which, I would like to make some comments about Furkan Kayabasoglu’s bedside manner. He’s clearly some of the worst you could imagine. If at least he was kind, caring for his patient I wouldn’t bother to write this review. In addition to all of these problems I have undergone, I have been left all alone. Yes, I admit his assistant (at least some of his assistants were not that terrible) contacted me and asked for photos. But for what? Returning back to me a couple days later while I was waiting desperately and telling me ‘everything is going well’ when the truth was the opposite. I mean they told me I was doing well while my scar was getting larger as I narrated previously. (Thank god, I didn’t trust their judgement.) That’s all the psychological and physical support I received, if you can call that. Moreover, I have found Gurkan Kayabasoglu very unstable during examination and surgery. I felt uneasy because he was kind for a moment and a few seconds later he would begin to scold me for asking most sensible questions such as ‘should I wait for wound to close before applying ointments?’ But most of the time he was talking down to me. Particularly after payment, he was more passive aggressive towards me.
When I went for my stitches removed, I travelled 6 hours in total, and 6 hours for returning home since I was coming from a different city. Yet he couldn’t spare his precious five minutes. He urgently removed the stitches (no surprise he left some), and took some photos and answered two of my questions on the run. Obviously I couldn’t get a chance to ask anything during stitches removal or photo taking. My only chance to talk to him was while following and catching him between the two rooms. One of my questions was regarding applying make up over the scar and yes he replied “yes”. Yes, over infected wound, at least he believed so. That’s the kind of post operative care I have received.
I am aware I did not mention about my lips which was the point of surgery. I admit they are looking better than expected yet weird too. Also I had to use lip filler after 3 months, because most of the effect on the lips was gone by then. Moreover, my upper lip is still long! Nevertheless, when I compare gains and losses, I am definitely at a huge loss. I traded my pyschology, nose and scarless skin for a slight improvement in my upper lip. I couldn’t enjoy that slight lip lift result due to complications, sloppy work and nasal deformities as well as psychological stress. I have done my best to depict my experience as unbiased as possible even though I have every right to be angry.
Obviously, things may go wrong, even in the right hands. But what separates a good surgeon from the bad one are these desperate times. If something goes wrong, which is highly likely with Mr Gurkan, you won’t be able to contact him, you won’t even have a chance to discuss any concerns during your post-op consultation which is rather disrespectful. I do recommend lip lift, especially if you need it. It may be transformative. But not with Mr Gurkan or his technique.
In a nutshell, I was left with botched nose after lip lift, while recovering had to battle with wound separation, bad scars due to doctor’s neglect, lack of skill and/or sloppiness. At 6 months, placement of the scar is hideous giving me a ridiculous look, my nose is cut and stitched back as if it was a pair of socks, scars expanding even the beyond of natural creases around the nose. Moreover, I was ignored, couldn’t receive any follow up advice or proper help. Avoid like the plague. I won’t forgive him for the rest of my life for what he has done. I scheduled a revision rhinoplasty and pray for it resolves at least some of the problems. (Skeptical) I will update whether revision rhino would save me or not.
I contacted Mr. Gurkan for lip lift 6 months ago. I have chosen him specifically because he was practicing a distinctive lip lift technique, endonasal, which I believed was right for me. Basically he hides some of the scar inside the nose and cut into nasal sills. Since I had no prominent nasal sills, I thought I would benefit this surgery. He was rather open about nasal changes and deformities and warned me that my nostrils would be larger to some degree. I went for it knowing this fact. However, the changes in my nose are beyond acceptable. To begin with, I didn’t have the prettiest nose beforehand. On the contrary my nose was manifesting alar retraction as a remainder of previous rhinoplasty. Yet he changed my nose to some extent that whoever looks at my face they stare at my nose. I received so many comforting (heartbreaking for me) feedback from my social circle. They felt sorry for me. Not because I have a huge nose, but a weird looking, unnatural and funny looking nose. At first glance, even strangers recognize something is off on face. I try to avoid going out whenever possible, I am forced to be antisocial.
The worst part is that, before surgery, he had told me “if something like this happens, it would be easy to fix with revision rhinoplasty”. So I didn’t mind possible distortions. However, in the last weeks I have been declined by two surgeons (who performs primarily revision rhinoplasties). He gave me a nose that even most skilled surgeons can’t promise to fix it considerably. This was more devastating than the botched surgery itself, because now I feel hopeless and cheated.
I am not done. In fact, I am just beginning.
My horrible nose aside. I had rather poor scarring due to mostly doctor’s fault and neglect. He calls this scarless lip lift, he hides the scar inside your nose but I had scar problems on four different areas.
First right under my nose, in the middle. After removing stitches (actually you will see he couldn’t remove all of them), he told me I had infection under my nose and prescribed hydrogen peroxide. I followed his instructions for about ten days, however things become much much worse. Besides I hadn’t got any other infection symptoms, so I thought something was wrong and get a consultation from a hospital. It turned out that I did not have infection but wound separation. By using hydrogen peroxide I have made the scar bigger. The specialist told me to quit using Hydrogen peroxide right away and recommended using hydrogel and saline wash cleaning. Luckily, she knew what she was doing and saved me from more scarring. Her instructions cleared the wound bed and closed the wound in second application. So my wound was separated due to poor stitching or my fault (believe me I did stop talking for 2 weeks to heal properly and no to disturb incisions). You decide. But one thing is clear, it got worse due to Kayabasoglu’s misguidance.
Goodbye so called scarless lip lift.
Second is the side of my nasal wing. Even though the wound seems to be closed there is a gap between my nose and cheek junction and by stretching my skin it opens wide. It also has some bumps on the incision line.
Next is the scar inside my same nostril. He hid the scar inside my nose which turned out to be a hypertrophic scar, even though it is inside my nose you can clearly see it (thanks to huge nostrils) and it resembles dried snot. Currently I am hoping it doesn’t progress or grow. Yet this is the only part I can’t blame Kayabasoglu. Though it is still frustrating for me considering I had to endure so many complications!
Anyway, the most exciting part is coming. When I was 6 weeks post op, I discovered a blue stitch inside my other nostril which had always remained hard and stiff and never resolved. I gently tried to remove it with a tweezer before even realizing it was a really stitch. Who would thought that? After taking macro shots with flash on, it was right there, clearly a few stitches were left. Since it is attached firmly to my nose there may be even more stitches underneath. It is not just a simple stitch remnant that my body dispose of, he left it there intact. Also my skin had brown discoloration and patches in the same region maybe due to this. Since he never cared to follow up his patients, I decided to seek another surgeons help for this issue.
Speaking of which, I would like to make some comments about Furkan Kayabasoglu’s bedside manner. He’s clearly some of the worst you could imagine. If at least he was kind, caring for his patient I wouldn’t bother to write this review. In addition to all of these problems I have undergone, I have been left all alone. Yes, I admit his assistant (at least some of his assistants were not that terrible) contacted me and asked for photos. But for what? Returning back to me a couple days later while I was waiting desperately and telling me ‘everything is going well’ when the truth was the opposite. I mean they told me I was doing well while my scar was getting larger as I narrated previously. (Thank god, I didn’t trust their judgement.) That’s all the psychological and physical support I received, if you can call that. Moreover, I have found Gurkan Kayabasoglu very unstable during examination and surgery. I felt uneasy because he was kind for a moment and a few seconds later he would begin to scold me for asking most sensible questions such as ‘should I wait for wound to close before applying ointments?’ But most of the time he was talking down to me. Particularly after payment, he was more passive aggressive towards me.
When I went for my stitches removed, I travelled 6 hours in total, and 6 hours for returning home since I was coming from a different city. Yet he couldn’t spare his precious five minutes. He urgently removed the stitches (no surprise he left some), and took some photos and answered two of my questions on the run. Obviously I couldn’t get a chance to ask anything during stitches removal or photo taking. My only chance to talk to him was while following and catching him between the two rooms. One of my questions was regarding applying make up over the scar and yes he replied “yes”. Yes, over infected wound, at least he believed so. That’s the kind of post operative care I have received.
I am aware I did not mention about my lips which was the point of surgery. I admit they are looking better than expected yet weird too. Also I had to use lip filler after 3 months, because most of the effect on the lips was gone by then. Moreover, my upper lip is still long! Nevertheless, when I compare gains and losses, I am definitely at a huge loss. I traded my pyschology, nose and scarless skin for a slight improvement in my upper lip. I couldn’t enjoy that slight lip lift result due to complications, sloppy work and nasal deformities as well as psychological stress. I have done my best to depict my experience as unbiased as possible even though I have every right to be angry.
Obviously, things may go wrong, even in the right hands. But what separates a good surgeon from the bad one are these desperate times. If something goes wrong, which is highly likely with Mr Gurkan, you won’t be able to contact him, you won’t even have a chance to discuss any concerns during your post-op consultation which is rather disrespectful. I do recommend lip lift, especially if you need it. It may be transformative. But not with Mr Gurkan or his technique.
In a nutshell, I was left with botched nose after lip lift, while recovering had to battle with wound separation, bad scars due to doctor’s neglect, lack of skill and/or sloppiness. At 6 months, placement of the scar is hideous giving me a ridiculous look, my nose is cut and stitched back as if it was a pair of socks, scars expanding even the beyond of natural creases around the nose. Moreover, I was ignored, couldn’t receive any follow up advice or proper help. Avoid like the plague. I won’t forgive him for the rest of my life for what he has done. I scheduled a revision rhinoplasty and pray for it resolves at least some of the problems. (Skeptical) I will update whether revision rhino would save me or not.
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