I am writing this review to commemorate the first anniversary of my rhinoplasty.
I wanted to feel as natural as possible because of my severe beaked nose, and I excluded large hospitals and went to places where one director performs the surgery.
The first hospital I visited, Hospital A, had an interior that felt like an old neighborhood hospital, and when I looked for information, they mainly performed non-surgical rhinoplasty, but I didn’t want to put in an implant, so I went to this hospital for a consultation. However, they said that they couldn’t cut the beak off my nose and that they could only raise the tip of my nose, but that would make my nose too high and look artificial. So I went to this
hospital, which I visited for a second time, for a consultation. They performed the surgery under local anesthesia. However, I am not sensitive to pain, and safety was a priority, so it was okay. (Local anesthesia allows you to check if you are breathing during the surgery.) And during the surgery, a guardian can come in and check the shape of your nose and make corrections. However, this hospital said that a silicone implant must be inserted between the eyebrows after the beaked osteotomy. I think the reason was that they had to put silicone in the uneven areas to make it smooth and natural. I was worried that my already high nose would look like an avatar if I had a prosthesis between my eyebrows, but I decided to go with this.
Surgical method:
Shaving the beak, cutting the bone, lifting the tip of the nose to raise the tip of the nose and slightly lowering the columella.
(Asymmetry correction and rhinitis functional surgery were also optional, but I thought it would be best to leave my nose as it was, so I didn’t do it. The director was like, “Do it or not.”)
Surgical process:
Brief general anesthesia
and then local anesthesia on my nose. The process leading up to general anesthesia was harder than the surgery itself. The operating room was cold, and while I was in a daze, I was distracted by the nurses talking in the operating room and the cold water cleaning my nose and mouth. After waking up from general anesthesia, the director came in and the surgery began. The surgery wasn’t scary. I just lay there, and then my friend who was my guardian came in, stood far away, showed me my nose in the mirror, and asked if it was okay to raise it this high, so my head got really complicated. I asked to raise the tip of my nose a little more because I thought it would sag later, and I am satisfied now. After finishing the surgery, I had to lie down in the recovery room for 1-2 hours, which was harder than the surgery. My eyes and nose were all swollen and the pain was overwhelming, but my nose suddenly blocked my breath and it was hard to breathe.
Now, a year after the surgery, I am also satisfied with the shape of my nose. I could dig and un-dig my nose without any problems... The tip of my nose is not as hard as I thought. And when I had the surgery, they said they did a little bit of asymmetry correction, even though it was not included. Maybe that is why I feel more comfortable breathing through my nose than before the surgery. I was worried that it would be like that because the silicone was prominent on the bridge of my nose like the one around me. But maybe because the silicone was only inserted between my eyebrows, there was no unnatural feeling that is characteristic of silicone. When the director came into the surgery room, I asked him to trim the beak a little, so there was a little bit left, but I am satisfied because I think it looks too smooth and artificial.
SUNGYESA
