Difficulty Breathing and a Crooked Implant
Difficulty Breathing and a Crooked Implant
In 2019 I had a rhinoplasty/septoplasty/turbinate reduction and chin implant. It left me with collapsed nasal passages and difficulty breathing, my nose was not blended there was a large bulge of cartilage on the right side and a weird transition from by bridge to my tip. I didn't hate it, it was an improvement from where I started but there were a lot of issues, and turned me into a mouth breather. My chin implant was extremely crooked and left me with a divot on my left side, when I asked Dr. Clarke about it he said it was my bone and he would have to shave down the bone or the implant. Four years later I finally just got it fixed with another doctor and the experience was leaps and bounds different and better. He gave more structure to my septum to fix my breathing, blended the cartilage and told me the chin implant was sewn in upside down and crooked and that he did not see any deformity in my bone. I spent 15K on the first surgery and had to spend another 25k to fix everything since it was a complicated revision. Dr. Clarke seemed very experienced and had books of consistent results so i'm not sure why I had a poor outcome


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