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Asian Rhinoplasty Revision (Tip-plasty Revision)
I am 3 weeks out of my revision rhinoplasty surgery and I am so happy, over the moon with my result that I want to share my experience.
First, I want to stress how difficult it was to even find a plastic surgeon that does revision rhinoplasty in the Toronto area. I had located a few on Google that claimed they did revision rhinoplasty on their website but once I had contacted their offices, they either did not provide that type of surgery and some no longer do it. I did not realize, how difficult it would be to find a revision rhinoplasty surgeon until then. I had come across a patient on realself who had a revision done in Toronto but when I contacted this doctor, they referred me to Dr Gantous as they were not taking on anymore revision rhinoplasty patients.
Dr Gantous' office scheduled my appointment right away. Their reception does a great job answering phone calls and responding to emails in a timely manner.
A brief history about me is that as an asian patient, back in the days before Google reviews (early 2000's), we were told to go to a board certified plastic surgeon that specialized in our ethnicity and we should get a good result. So I went to the prominent Asian plastic surgeon at the time, which left me with unsatisfactory results. The teflon bridge graft was on the right side of my nose bridge, the cartilage tip graft was sitting on the right side of my nose tip leaving me with a wider nose that leaned to the right with little to no visible upward projection and the open scar on the columella was visible and prominent. Hard to believe a nose job could leave you with a wider, flatter nose, but that's what happened to me. Being that this was one of the only Asian surgeons in Ontario at the time, I then went to South Korea to have his work corrected. They corrected the bridge graft and set it at the center of my nose bridge but either through a language barrier or a lack of technique, they never addressed the tip, though I told them about it. And for this reason I had set out to find a surgeon for my second revision on the nose tip.
Dr Gantous isn't advertising his practice all over social media, he is a very specific surgeon that specializes in nose revisions, a surgery it seems that other surgeons do not want to do. That was very impressive to me and gave me great confidence to meet with him for my revision. And as I have first hand experience in the stereotype of seeking a surgeon that specializes in patients of your ethnic background, let me tell you that I now know this is absolutely not true. A skilled surgeon knows how to operate and achieve that best aesthetic result for any nose, of any ethnicity. And this is true of Dr Gantous.
Back to my revision, when I met with Dr Gantous, I felt immediately confident that I found the right surgeon. Revision surgeries are a bit exploratory in that a surgeon wont be able to know 100% of what they have to work with until you are on the operating table but I had great confidence in what he told me he could see through his initial assessment and how much he could accomplish there.
The surgery went smoothly and I have been recovering for 3 weeks. As soon as I went home, I was already impressed that I no longer had an ugly deep sunken scar across my columella and I could see my nostrils were oval and not round circles. I was even more pleased after 1 week when my bandage came off. It's still very swollen but I had no problem going out in public with my new nose 1 week post op. That's how much more of an improvement it was to my old nose.
At 3 weeks I am over the moon with how my nose is healing. It's still a bit swollen but perfectly symmetrical to my face and proportions.
Nose revision surgeries are not like primary rhinoplasty surgeries, it's difficult to even find a surgeon willing to do them. If there are potential patients of nose revision considering looking overseas because they are unsure of western surgeons, I encourage them to seek a consultation with Dr Gantous before looking overseas. I had found that South Korea does great primary rhinoplasty (with silicone) and blepharoplasty (they even do great revision work with eyelid) but nose revision isn't their specialty. You need somebody like Dr Gantous who spent his entire career fixing other surgeons' bad noses. He is a meticulous expert in the nose.
I am so happy my path eventually crossed to his surgery. I am so glad that through this long rhinoplasty journey, I finally have the nose I've always wanted. I only wish Dr Gantous did my primary rhinoplasty to begin with. :)
First, I want to stress how difficult it was to even find a plastic surgeon that does revision rhinoplasty in the Toronto area. I had located a few on Google that claimed they did revision rhinoplasty on their website but once I had contacted their offices, they either did not provide that type of surgery and some no longer do it. I did not realize, how difficult it would be to find a revision rhinoplasty surgeon until then. I had come across a patient on realself who had a revision done in Toronto but when I contacted this doctor, they referred me to Dr Gantous as they were not taking on anymore revision rhinoplasty patients.
Dr Gantous' office scheduled my appointment right away. Their reception does a great job answering phone calls and responding to emails in a timely manner.
A brief history about me is that as an asian patient, back in the days before Google reviews (early 2000's), we were told to go to a board certified plastic surgeon that specialized in our ethnicity and we should get a good result. So I went to the prominent Asian plastic surgeon at the time, which left me with unsatisfactory results. The teflon bridge graft was on the right side of my nose bridge, the cartilage tip graft was sitting on the right side of my nose tip leaving me with a wider nose that leaned to the right with little to no visible upward projection and the open scar on the columella was visible and prominent. Hard to believe a nose job could leave you with a wider, flatter nose, but that's what happened to me. Being that this was one of the only Asian surgeons in Ontario at the time, I then went to South Korea to have his work corrected. They corrected the bridge graft and set it at the center of my nose bridge but either through a language barrier or a lack of technique, they never addressed the tip, though I told them about it. And for this reason I had set out to find a surgeon for my second revision on the nose tip.
Dr Gantous isn't advertising his practice all over social media, he is a very specific surgeon that specializes in nose revisions, a surgery it seems that other surgeons do not want to do. That was very impressive to me and gave me great confidence to meet with him for my revision. And as I have first hand experience in the stereotype of seeking a surgeon that specializes in patients of your ethnic background, let me tell you that I now know this is absolutely not true. A skilled surgeon knows how to operate and achieve that best aesthetic result for any nose, of any ethnicity. And this is true of Dr Gantous.
Back to my revision, when I met with Dr Gantous, I felt immediately confident that I found the right surgeon. Revision surgeries are a bit exploratory in that a surgeon wont be able to know 100% of what they have to work with until you are on the operating table but I had great confidence in what he told me he could see through his initial assessment and how much he could accomplish there.
The surgery went smoothly and I have been recovering for 3 weeks. As soon as I went home, I was already impressed that I no longer had an ugly deep sunken scar across my columella and I could see my nostrils were oval and not round circles. I was even more pleased after 1 week when my bandage came off. It's still very swollen but I had no problem going out in public with my new nose 1 week post op. That's how much more of an improvement it was to my old nose.
At 3 weeks I am over the moon with how my nose is healing. It's still a bit swollen but perfectly symmetrical to my face and proportions.
Nose revision surgeries are not like primary rhinoplasty surgeries, it's difficult to even find a surgeon willing to do them. If there are potential patients of nose revision considering looking overseas because they are unsure of western surgeons, I encourage them to seek a consultation with Dr Gantous before looking overseas. I had found that South Korea does great primary rhinoplasty (with silicone) and blepharoplasty (they even do great revision work with eyelid) but nose revision isn't their specialty. You need somebody like Dr Gantous who spent his entire career fixing other surgeons' bad noses. He is a meticulous expert in the nose.
I am so happy my path eventually crossed to his surgery. I am so glad that through this long rhinoplasty journey, I finally have the nose I've always wanted. I only wish Dr Gantous did my primary rhinoplasty to begin with. :)
Provider Review
Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon
150 Bloor St. West , Toronto, Ontario