i had rhinoplasty performed twenty years ago. at the time, i didn't do much research and boy was it the biggest mistake of my life. the reason i'm responding is that i just truly love the result this time. at this stage in my life, i have a family, kids and a great job but everytime i looked at myself i hated my nose and myself. my husband use to say that this wasn't what was important and that he loved me the way i was, but it really bothered me! i started by researching surgeons and their qualification. i knew that i wanted to go to a specialist who had training in noses and then i even went further then that. i researched the best training institutions and the best nasal surgeons out there. i consistently found dean toriumi, md. i knew he was in chicago and i was in the bay area. i then looked up his fellows and graduates of his and found dr. jacqueline cheng. i interviewed 4-5 physicians and she was the one surgeon i ""connected"" with. i loved her right away.
again, i'm not the type of person who is impulsive....at least not now. so i waited another year and researched more. i always seemed to come back to dr. jacqueline cheng. i showed her pictures and she told me that revision rhinoplasty and rhinoplasty is very difficult and expectations may or may not be achieved because of the way the bone heals and tissues heal. from what i remember she said, ""cartilage and bone and tissues can shift and sometimes a revision surgery is necessary"". ugggh, i did not want to hear this. i understood what she was saying because i had experience it before but didn't want to think about the possibility of my nose not turning out the way i wanted it. i'm alittle neurotic in that way. i imagine people who opt for plastic surgery must be similar to me. anyways, i am 2 years out now and still loving my nose.
all this to say, feel comfortable with your rhinoplasty surgeon and do some research.
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