21 Year Old Female: Nose Job and Chin Implant - Dr Gross- Surgery on 5/21/15 - Santa Barbara, CA

Hey everyone- I'm almost a year post op! I can't believe it's been such a long time.
I am feeling really awesome about all of my surgeries. I am so happy I made this decision. My nose has slowly shrunk down a tiny bit since my last review. I would be happy if it was a tiny bit thinner, but I don't plan on getting a revision. I think it is good enough. I'm really happy and comfortable with my looks these days and I love that very few people know that I got surgery.
I have gone through quite a transformation in the last 2 years. I lost a total of 80lbs (through diet and exercise), found fake tanner (fake bake is my new best friend), got a rhinoplasty, chin implant, and breast implants. I'm a whole new me, and couldn't be happier! I have so much more confidence, and I feel healthy and happy. I have no lasting effects from my surgery, other than having lost a little bit of feeling in a few parts of my chin. It is not numb, but just less sensitive. Since it's my chin, it really isn't something that bothers me at all.
Broken Nose:
I had a pretty scary mishap about a month ago though. I was playing soccer, and I got elbow'd hard in the nose. I heard the crack and knew something bad had happened. I felt my nose and it didn't feel right. I knew by the horrified looks of my teammates that it didn't look good. I ran to the bathroom and was terrified to see a crooked face in the mirror. My nose was broken bad. (I attached a picture-scary right!?) I immediately started to rush to the hospital, and called Dr. Gross- my plastic surgeon on my way there. He had me send him pictures- to which he said "yeah, that definitely needs to be fixed." He told me that I could come to him and he would fix it for me. We figured out that we could meet at a hospital near him and he could fix it there- that way insurance would cover the costs. I had a funeral to go to that afternoon, and he told me that as long as he fixed it in the first week after it broke that there was really no hurry. It surprisingly did not hurt much at all- it was just scary to look in the mirror. So I went to the funeral that afternoon with my broken nose, and drove the 2 hours to Santa Barbara to meet him afterwards. It was no fun at all to have it put back into place, but the pain was short and it looked great once all was said and done. I don't think it's normal to be able to wait 8 hours to have a broken nose reset when it's such a bad break. I'm thinking that during my surgery some of the nerves connected to the inside of my nose must have been damages, because it was not even painful at all until the resetting happened. My nose was a little swollen for the next week, but a month later I can't tell that anything even happened to it. I'm so thankful my surgeon was willing to meet me (on a sunday night, no less!) and repair the damages.
I am so happy with how I look now, and I think it was absolutely worth the money that I spent.

I originally went to my cosmetic surgeon (Dr. Gross) in hopes of getting just a rhinoplasty done. After some discussion with him, I decided to add in the chin implant as it was just $1500 more. I almost didn't do it, but at the last second I decided to go for it. My recovery for the chin implant was actually harder than the rhinoplasty recovery. I had a lot of numbness for a long time, and I had a fair amount of pain during the first week of recovery. This is not typical of chin implants though. Luckily everything healed properly and now that I'm 5 months post op, I am so beyond happy I decided to do the chin implant as well. I honestly think that the implant has made a bigger difference in my face than the rhinoplasty. It changed the shape of my face- no longer do I have my little recessed and pointy chin! Yay! I feel like everything is better balanced, and I'm so glad I did it.

My nose is a bit smaller, but it's still bigger than I would like it to be. On the plus side- nobody noticed that I had gotten surgery! Even my ex boyfriend of over 4 years didn't notice a difference when he saw me- maybe he's just an unobservant ass though haha. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not that people don't notice a difference. Did I just waste $8600 on something that only I can see? Hopefully not- but even so, I feel better about myself, and I did the surgery for myself, not for others. It occurs to me that someday I could get a rhinoplasty revision to make my nose even smaller, but I'm not sure if it's really worth it. It is a lot of money!

Hi everyone. Here is my updated results with some before and after shots. The swelling on the nose has gone down a little since my last update, but it's still larger than I was hoping. But overall I am happy with the results. I was unsure on whether to do the chin implant at first. I initially only planned on the rhinoplasty. But after seeing the before and after pictures, I am so happy I chose to do the implant as well. I feel like it has made a huge difference- maybe even more so than the nose!