16 months after rhinoplasty at ID Hospital
Procedure:
Bridge augmentation (silicone implant)
Tip plasty
Osteotomy
Alar reduction
The surgeon advised using donor rib cartilage for the tip rather than my own septal or ear cartilage.
My experience:
I had noticed the nose cartilage tip was off centre of the nose skip tip and deviated to the left when the cast was removed.
I asked the surgeon and he explained 2 new information to me then:
- he showed the nose tip was deviated to the left on a pre-op picture
- the more the nose tip is projected, the more obvious this deviation becomes.
Later on, the hospital explained that the surgeon didn’t make me aware of these 2 information (my specific pre-op nose tip asymmetry and that a projection would make it more obvious) before the surgery because he did already give a general warning that he can’t guarantee symmetry of the nose.
My advise to others with nose asymmetry:
Please find a surgeon that can identify, make you aware and explain of any asymmetry, if it would affect the result and if it can be corrected.
From experience, it would have been better to have known this information before the surgery, as I wouldn’t have gone ahead with it had I known.