Two Years Post Rhinoplasty, Not Happy at All.

READ whole review for honest opinion. I waited a bit over two years post rhinoplasty to post my honest review. I didnt do much research since I initially went in for Dr Rappaport but he said Dr Singh is great and taking over. It was pretty expensive as expected from a 5th ave plastic surgeon. I gave the second star because Dr Singh and the staff were extremely nice and responsive and addressed every call and visit like professionals. I didnt do much research or ask for pictures of previous rhinoplasties preformed (my fault) but a lot of my friends had them done and scared me right before surgery so I emailed the office and this was the response I received, copied and pasted).

“ You are certainly in great hands with Dr. Singh. Dr. Singh regularly performs rhinoplasty procedures. In general, Dr. Singh is in surgery everyday performing either facial or body surgeries. We try our best to get patients to sign photo consent, but most patients are not willing to share pre/post photos.

Dr. Rapaport has had his practice for over 27 years and wouldn’t have Dr. Singh apart of his team and refer his established & new patients to him if he wasn’t confident in his education, training, and work.”

I asked for very subtle changes and to be honest the results were subtle but on a scale of 1-10 im only at a 5 aesthetically and the tip of my nose is definitely bulbuls two years later and much fatter then it was pre op. I sort of look like I was a life time drinker so I’m not thrilled with the end aesthetic results (if I had to decide now if I would do the surgery I seeing the before and after results I would have kept my original.

Now for the real issues: I had trouble breathing immediately after surgery. It didn’t impriove for almost 2 years. I finally went to ENT and this is what the finding were (again copied and pasted).

“ This patient has a significant mechanical nasal obstruction, unresponsive to maximal medical management. The cause is multifactorial, with an obvious septal deviation, turbinate hypertrophy, and static internal nasal valve collapse. There is some dynamic nasal valve collapse as well. Correction of this nasal obstruction will require a septoplasty, repair of nasal valve collapse with structural grafting, and a bilateral turbinate reduction.” “ Recommend septoplasty, nasal valve repair with structural grafting, and inferior turbinate reduction with lateralization. We also discussed the aesthetic concerns as well.

Specific techniques for repair may include lysis of adhesion under nasal endoscopy and local anesthesia with placement of nasal stents. This was discussed with the patient in detail. All risks such as bleeding, infection, scarring, damage to nearby structures and need for additional procedures were discussed with the patient. Benefits including improved breathing and cosmesis as well as alternatives including medical management and nasal stents were discussed as well.”

This second repair surgery was so, so painful. Stents were put in after, I had 10 days of suffering. I had to pay $7,500 out of pocket since I have a high insurance deductible. I still get daily nose bleeds out of one nostril but I am able to breath so much better. I am still the ONLY photos of any rhinoplasty on the doctors socials or the website so I have very little confidence that the doctor has rhinoplasty experience. I see plenty of facelifts and other face surgeries, but zero rhinoplasty ones.

I feel bad writing this because the doctor is a very nice guy and I am sure he is good at facelifts and other procedures, but I am very skeptical on his rhinoplasty experience since I had such a poor outcome. Had I known going in the outcome of either the breathing or aesthetic results I’m most definitely would not have undergone the procedure. My family doesnt know I had this done and I am very private about these things so I didnt want to write a review at all I am just still semi suffering 2 years later and still not happy how it looks so I felt the need to write this review as much as I feel bad about writing it. (Im not posting the beofre of after pictures but its the only nose job on socials.)