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Following on from my post about my devastating experience, I have updated my Instagram page with the photographs and experience of another patient of Professor Enrico Robotti, who has given me permission to share her story. Link below:

https://www.instagram.com/robotti\_revision\_myexperience?igsh=MW13M3QzdjI0ZWp3cQ==

She is struggling with a number of significant post-operative issues following her 2024 surgery. She has sought more than ten consultations in Italy and abroad with specialists in reconstructive rhinoplasty to assess her result and possible options for correction.

Below is an extract from her account, in her own words:

Despite the fact that the surgical record described the outcome as positive, with reconstruction and restoration of the nasal midline, my actual post-operative result was devastating.

Since 2024, the year of my surgery, I have sought more than ten consultations in Italy and abroad with leading specialists in reconstructive rhinoplasty in order to assess the result and understand the possibility of correcting it.

According to the assessments I have received, there are significant structural and aesthetic abnormalities. The overall quality of my current nose has been assessed at approximately 40–45/100.

The current nose presents:

- significant asymmetry and deviation of the nasal pyramid;

- a broad bony base;

- a pronounced brow-to-tip line on the right side;

- a drooping and retracted tip;

- marked columellar retraction;

- marked irregularities that are particularly visible because of the thin skin;

- an overall amorphous aesthetic appearance, with no clearly defined nasal lines or coherent aesthetic concept, whether Greek, French, or otherwise.

In other words, although the operative report describes restoration of the nasal midline and a successful reconstruction, the present anatomical and aesthetic result does not correspond to that description.

The photographs document the actual post-operative outcome and the structural abnormalities that remain after the 2024 surgery.

I am sharing this because I believe patients should be able to hear about other patients' experiences and make informed decisions for themselves.

I am sharing my Instagram page which contains photos and details of my experience with Dr Robotti in Bergamo Italy. I had this surgery to replace one graft on the bridge of my nose. I had lived with my previous result for over 13 years and would have gladly accepted it if I had been told the real truth about this surgery. I thought I was trusting an expert, as that's all I heard on the mainstream internet. I was completely naive to the true horrors of rhinoplasty. I have had it confirmed in an independent assessment that skin from my columella has been removed, effectively giving me an internal alarplasty which has made my nose look flat to my face and completely unattractive. My breathing is worse, my nose is crooked, asymmetrical, scarred, and just plain ugly. It is bloated and stiff with rib grafts, I can't even smile properly anymore. I'll allow my photos to speak for themselves. I am also now being ignored by Dr Robotti and the hospital, Villa Sant'Apollonia. They do not want to investigate my complaints nor refund me despite the evidently terrible result, and the amount of changes done to my nose that I believe I did not give consent for. In fact I asked for the opposite, to keep my nose tip exactly the same. But here's the scary thing, I received an email from Dr Robotti's secretary casually stating that, despite me having had three consultations, they have "no consultation notes" and "no diagrams of my surgery plan". This leaves me wondering how exactly the surgery is planned and how patients wishes are respected, mine certainly weren't. Please find my review of Villa Sant'Apollonia on Google maps.

Here is my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robotti\_revision\_myexperience?igsh=MW13M3QzdjI0ZWp3cQ==

Please don't send any judgemental messages, I've already explained that I was naive and misguided to have this surgery. I had multiple consultations with this doctor and no real risks were ever discussed with me other than "it might not be perfect". It's far from it.