Rhinoplasty travelling from UK to Poland Wroclaw, with Adam kaleckinski

Thank you x

Hi yes I've sent a ridiculous amount of questions and pictures and will meet for a consultation when I fly out. He also comes to the UK and does consultations here x

Ooh really! Do you know how he fixed them. Did he use a spreader graft.

I am wondering too! I have dents.

Adam has wrecked my nose and completely taken away any softness from my face. He's made it bigger and wider with grafts all over the bridge, rounded off my tip and profile when I *specifically* told him multiple times to just conservatively enhance the existing angles to be a bit more sharp and angular (and he's not even done that symmetrically), my stitching was poor and I've got terrible scarring, my septum vibrates if I breathe too deeply over a month post op...I could go on. He had a form for me to sign seconds in to my consult, didn't even bother to feel my nose pre-op or ask me to take my glasses off before he was already saying what he thought should be done, my consult was five minutes tops and that was WITH me stopping him several times to try to say what I wanted. He said we would speak again before the op but when I tried to he told me I could back out if I wanted then left. I wish I had, travel and accom costs be damned. I should have listened to my instinct. Before my nose was crooked with a bump, but my face had a sweet boyish quality that just straightening and refining my nose slightly would have enhanced amazingly. Now I look like a boxer or something with a big round nose. My whole face looks radically different, which my well meaning but blunt brother blurted out the other day. My heart hurts. I'm still waiting for him to take responsibility (so far it's all been excuses) and properly communicate with me about it before I go public with pictures and a review, but please trust me. Save up for someone with extensive specialisation and experience in rhinoplasty, one of the big names. The cost is worth it. Because I can tell you now, if it goes wrong it's utterly heartbreaking.

I read in another post that you have and revision already and also that Tim Woolford found you too nitpicky and wouldn't operate you. You cannot just talk bad about someone without any facts. Did Adam do your primary or your revision? Why did you want revision in the first place? Also 1 month out is not much you should know that it takes up to 12 months for the swelling to go completely down. I think it's a bit early to say that he 'wrecked your nose completely'.

I'd had a primary rhinoplasty with an ENT on my bridge. The tip has never been touched before. It was quite sharp, small and downpointing (which I actually prefer a V shape). My problems regarding the tip area was purely the lower half, the columella which I asked to be raised VERY conservatively 1mm or so so that it met the existing tip at a slightly sharper angle to create a bit more definition from the front. I emphasised multiple times that I absolutely did NOT want the tip raising or it being rounded off. It's now almost a C shape from the side and angles and the tip is no longer the highest point, resulting in a rather severe pollybeak. While a case can be made for the state of my bridge, because that indeed was a revision, (though we simply talked about planing down a small bump and I was given no warning that he might build out my nose instead to level it out, greatly increasing the projection) my tip was unoperated on previously. It's been altered in ways I specified I didn't want and moreover, it's not even symmetrical. One side of my columella has been raised, but not the other. There was also heavy scabs in both sides of my incisions that couldn't be cleaned away and the nurse told me she couldn't get to the stitches so I'd have to have my GP remove them when the scabs fell away. Only when they did go away there were no stitches and my incision scar is quite severe up both sides (and got infected, I was given no antibiotics to take home with me).While there will of course still be some swelling, there are clearly extreme and fundamental changes to my nose that I did not want or consent to and that are a detriment to the character of my face. As for Tim Woolford, he thought I wouldn't be happy with a second surgery if I wasn't happy with the first. But what he didn't realise that I was VERY happy with my initial surgery (it was subtle, simply straighening my nose and smoothing out a bump along the right part of the bridge), but then heavy scar tissue formed and created asymmetry and blocked breathing in my left nostril, a bump appeared and my septum re-deviated. He acknowledged that there were problems but didn't think it was bad enough to warrant a surgery with him, because he doesn't like to 'sell' rhino or risk a revision unless it's a total disaster. He misjudged my character, sadly. As for facts, all I have are my experiences and my before and afters. People can ask me for my before and afters if it will help them, but I don't want to publicly post them. All I'm trying to do is help people make the right decision.

I understand that looking for a rhinoplasty surgeon and thinking about whether you're right to operate is deeply stressful and when you find someone you think is promising it's upsetting to find negative comments about them. But it's a huge, life changing decision. If my experiences can help someone make an informed decision then I want that.

Thank you for sharing your photos with me, I hope you will keep me posted with how you get on xx

Are you in Instagram? It's a very big rhinoplasty community there and it's absolutely amazing to see how noses change. I would give it some time, swelling can be a monster that's coming and going and make things look uneven. There are girls on Instagram who were not happy it all and some of the, took maaaany weeks to see the results. Especially when tip work has been done, it's usually a bit piggy and will drop after a few weeks. I wouldn't judge it as wrecked yet, just give it some more time even though it's hard. (And I would like to see your photos if you don't mind!?)