He Should Be Called Dr. "BEST"ler!

I am now 16 months out from my revision rhinoplasty with Dr. Bessler, and I am so, so happy. I finally look like I always hoped. There is no more swelling at this point, and the shape of my nose is lovely, and complimentary to my face. I am so grateful to Dr. Bessler, as I am sure his job was difficult. My nostrils are now almost exactly equal, I don't have a strange dip in one side of my bridge, and there is no longer a weird pointy thing sticking asymmetrically out of the tip of my nose. My nose is also straight now, which never was the case. I can't think of a single negative thing to say. I can definitely recommend Dr. Bessler in Zürich Switzerland as a great choice for people who seek a competent, professional revision rhinoplasty. Thank you Dr. Bessler

I have been living with a botched nose for 15 years. I had my primary rhinoplasty whenI was 37, and since I was starting from such an unattractive beginning point, it only gradually dawned on me over the years that it wasn't normal to have two entirely different sized nostrils, that it wasn't normal to be unable to press on a certain point on the bridge of my nose without feeling a sharp pain, that it looked a bit strange that my nose wasn't straight (it was off-center), and that I also had a hard sharp bump on the left side of my nose, which tilted up like a wood sprite, or Michael Jackson (I am sorry to use him as a reference but its the best descriptor; everyone will know what I mean). So all of these factors began to disturb me more and more, until finally I started to make the rounds of all the "best" revision rhinoplasty doctors in Europe where I live, and in the US where I was born. Each time, I met qualified surgeons, very nice, but I never felt confident to go through with another intervention because I always remembered the words of my primary surgeon coming back to haunt me "you cannot change the basic shape of the nose. I can only work so much with the materials I have before me" he said. So I just kept thinking oh my gosh, well, what would anyone have to work with NOW? This is a disaster! In addition to this, I also finally realized that I wanted, honestly, to stay close to home. It is already daunting enough to go through a surgery. Did I really want to do it in a strange city? Over the years I kept looking and keeping up with surgeons and their work. Finally I noticed that of all the doctors in my area, mainly Dr. Bessler was posting photos and videos of his work online. He had an Instagram account, and a YouTube channel, and he was confident about showing what he was doing. In Europe, this is a big deal. It is rare to see before and afters of work done by surgeons. Anyway - it was clear that Dr. Bessler is doing work that is complicated, and he also works across races. I find it impressive that he can perform successful rhinoplasties on the Asian nose, the African or Black nose, as well as the Caucasian nose (I am judging by his client satisfaction videos, which you can see on IG and YouTube - also these patients look amazing). You can see this in his videos. I made an appointment for a consultation 3 YEARS AGO. I spoke with him at length, and he made extensive photos of my face, and we modelled together what I hoped to look like. EVEN THEN, I didn't believe he could help me. I thought I was too messed up. I waited and went to more appointments with more doctors. No one was really hitting my standards. Then came Covid. We were all locked up in our houses and I thought wow this is just never going to happen. I revisited all my files and looked over all my notes, I realized the only doctor who came close to what I was dreaming of was Dr. Bessler. In the meantime, he was only excelling, just operating and hitting his bullseye with his patients every time. I made yet another appointment to speak with him, and here I want to say that first of all, after 3 years, the office still had my file, I was still remembered, and I was treated with the same or even better courtesy and respect as if it were the first visit. I went for it - I booked my appointment for end of March. OP DAY: I was so nervous! I took a bunch of photos of Old Face (or really Face Number Two lol) and then went under. I chose to be operated in Dr. Bessler's own operating facility, which was a great choice. He has everything right there, its very comfortable, top standards, hygiene you don't have to even worry about: excellent, and everyone who works with Dr. Bessler is as personable and wonderful as he is himself. I also should say that the anaesthesiologist called me the night before to discuss his role in the process. It was a great conversation, I felt well looked after and much more relaxed going into the next day. The operation went really well, it was even shorter than expected because I did not have to use any cartilage from my ribs (luckily). I was in at 8 and out at 3. HEALING: Well what can I say. It is exactly what everyone says. Textbook! I had panicky moments where I would freak out and cry because, lets face it, the nose was swollen! It was big! It looked like an old man had taken possession of my head! I was back and forth to Dr. Bessler like 5 times in the first 2 weeks, until he finally had to send me home saying, look: give it time to heal. I don't want to see you until July. And even THAT he did sooooo nicely. And he is right! I was obsessively taking pictures of my face almost daily - and now I have stopped dong it because, as of about a week ago, about 2 and a half months post-op, a lot of the swelling is gone and I have a beautiful, normal looking nose! I have two similarly shaped nostrils (on my wish list), I have a straight bridge (on my wish list), and you can't look at my face and look straight into my nostrils (also on my wish list). There is still swelling at the tip but all the literature says this takes a year or longer to go down with a revision. And frankly, it looks really good now so I hope it wont change too much. I have a bit of width on the sides, I want to ask about that at my appointment next week, but otherwise, and even with these questions, its all small potatoes. If you saw before and afters, (I will try to add some) you would be amazed. Bottom line: I am VERY HAPPY. I can absolutely recommend Dr. Bessler to anyone looking for a solution for a complicated (or even an easy) rhinoplasty, and all of his office staff, every single person, are lovely and helpful and make this scary process so easy. Thank you, Doctor Bessler. You changed my life for the better!