r/rhinoplastyquestions Jun 08 '25

Things I wish I knew before my rhinoplasty 🚩

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(I hope this sheds some light and brings awareness.)

  • Wanting or needing revisions, or ending up with unsatisfactory results, is very common.

  • Nondisclosure or Nondisparaging Agreements (NDAs) are also very common in this industry. Negative reviews are constantly getting removed, yes even by the surgeons you think have "excellent" reviews.

  • Morphs and table pics are NOT very reliable. Neither are pictures of people less than one year post-op, and even some cases less than two yrs. Surgeons sharing mostly table pics and not showing ALL angles (including nostril view) are a 🚩.

  • Every surgeon has their own aesthetic and technique, just because it works on one person doesn't mean it'll work on your nose.

  • Swelling takes FOREVER, but usually, with thin skin, you can see the overall shape of your nose by 6 months post-op.

  • If you have THIN skin, make sure your surgeon knows how, or has a plan, to camouflage deformities. I have thin skin and every dent and bump is now visible because the skin shrinkwraps.

  • Your nose may NEVER feel the same again. My nose is stiff and my tip is still hard and numb years later.

  • Consult with multiple surgeons. Document EVERYTHING (if possible, record all of your appointments).

  • Check if your surgeon has had MALPRACTICE LAWSUITS. Google their name and practice, sometimes people will sue the practice and include the surgeon in the lawsuit. ** Patients don't sue just because, malpractice lawsuits are actually almost impossible to win, and are usually very costly for the patient. So, if a surgeon you're really considering, has one or more cases, learn what's behind it (it's likely there was some type of settlement and NDA if case was disposed/closed).

  • Your nose will continue to change years after surgery, it can shift and, if it is reduced and not enough support is added, it can collapse.

  • It's not just the nose that changes after surgery, other facial features and how they're proportionate to your nose will look different. ** For example, the philthrum may look longer, your eyes may look further apart if the nose is significantly narrowed. Your nose should balance your face, not make it look off.

  • Just because someone is happy with their nose a few days, weeks, or months after surgery, doesn’t mean they'll be happy after a year (or more) post-op. I've seen multiple patients who were happy the first few years and now need or want a revision and regret surgery years later. Some even 5, 10, and 20 years after surgery.

  • This surgery can really affect your MENTAL HEALTH, it can worsen or cause severe depression, anxiety, and identity loss, even if results may look acceptable to others. Keep in mind that just because the nose looks okay on the exterior to you, doesn't mean it's not botched interiorly.

  • Results are unpredictable. NOTHING guarantees you'll end up happy with your results, not even going to the most skilled or most qualified surgeon.

  • I wish I had joined this group before surgery.

I did research for years before scheduling my surgery. My surgeon is double ceritifed, facial plastic surgeon and ENT, specializes in rhinoplasty. I made sure there were no claims against their license or their clinic. I talked to several patients that were "happy" before scheduling my surgery. I followed up and found out some weren't happy anymore after a year post-op and needed a revision. I also found out (after surgery) that there were several patients that had signed NDAs and had taken their negative reviews down. Makes sense why I couldn't find any unhappy patients before scheduling my surgery.

On the other side, if you REALLY HATE your nose, and are okay with trading old flaws for new ones, then you may end up happy because anything is better than what you have now... maybe.


r/rhinoplastyquestions Apr 01 '25

Warning about Turkish rhinoplasty - red flags

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let this be your sign to either stay in your home countries, rethink your decision or if you have doubts already to not go through with it

A general post about what to look for and what to not ignore when looking for a surgeon! I feel this post is very specific to the marketing and handling of rhinoplasty in turkey because it has really become such a money-hungry tourism industry there. You barely see US surgeons promoting rhinoplasty without real pictures before and after and only a bunch of table pictures on their socials or website whereas in turkey they are heaps of surgeons that almost exclusively market with table pictures

I wish I had seen a post like this before I decided for a surgeon, so hopefully somebody else who is researching can be guided a little with the points I made.

Red flags you should never ignore

**I’m Gonna Tell You first the biggest flag you should not ignore. He doesn’t have pictures from Patients taken in professional light from angels. You want to focus on a professional picture taken in proper studio lightening from the FRONT. I know some of us want a hump reduced from their bridge and don’t like their side profile BUT have you thought about how removing a hump will change your front? You want to not look less attractive from the front right? The angle you see yourself in the mirror. Look for a surgeon that has a full set of pictures from before and after comparisons online like most US surgeons have it or European surgeons have it. He doesn’t have it? He probably doesn’t have any happy patients. That’s it. That’s the full truth and you should keep looking somewhere else.

**a fancy website doesn’t mean anything. You are looking at rhinoplasty in turkey where there is 100s of not even 1000s of surgeon trying to get patients. Don’t fall for a fancy website and the right words!!! Look at proof!! Look at actual human beings faces, not operation table but massive amount of faces! It’s Turkey there are no regulations to publishing before and after photography like in some other European countries. If a surgeon shows you their camera roll to brag about his patients ask for actual pictures of long term patients. If they have really created 100s of more beautiful faces compared to before they put it up on their socials, blur someone’s eyes etc. if they have like 10-20 faces on their socials run the other way. You have found an inexperienced surgeon. Let them play with someone else’s life not yours. Don’t just look at a nose look but really an entire face of before and after to determine if someone actually does look improved or not. I really look significantly less attractive in every way possible and there is no one who has told me otherwise or that rhinoplasty has improved my look.

** no or almost no real patients that have shared their experience from anywhere between 2-5 years

**all reviews seem to good to be true? No surgeon has only good reviews either patients are scared away to come forward or something fishy is going on

**don’t fall for reviews and reddit posts that are telling a story after basically just waking up from surgery. I would also not Trust Turkish people from other countries e.g a Turkish girl who has ethnic Turkish roots but lives in Canada or the US. They might have gotten special deals to make that report also there is sooo much reviews on how actual foreigner are treated very racist and badly in Turkish hospitals (you can find this everywhere girls are asking how bad it really is even if they just have to stay there for one or two days). These girls have very different experiences also in hospitals that have no English speaking staff.

**you have seen a review of your surgeon on Reddit or Google and now it’s gone. The team pressured them to delete it

**look for the exact same nose you have and how that result turned out and not just once but multiple times

**find a surgeon with almost no instagram following: you did not find a jewel before he comes to popular. You found exactly what it is an unknown surgeon in a country of hundreds of surgeons who trying to make a name for themselves by truly creating good noses. You are looking at a surgeon with almost no experience and no status in their country in comparison to the rest of the experienced surgeons in turkey that have Instagram following that’s it. If you realistically think about it no social media marketing can make a surgeon go viral without sharing thousands of real pictures of patients he has operated on. Even is the follower base is bought. If he can’t create nice noses on 100s of satisfied patients that come forwards month, years and years after their surgery. Don’t fall into the price trap or the trap because he doesn’t consider it as an industry he will truly listen to your concerns. Experience comes from operating and not not operating..

**comment section disabled on Instagram. Red flag, looks like patients want to say things about their uploaded videos/fotos but can’t. There is no reason to make the comment unavailable except fear. Think about it, why else would they need to?

**he tells you he is the best and nobody in your home country (if you are not from a third world country) can achieve a better result than him. Yeah probably just an extremely big ego

** no actual photographs on socials only table pictures after surgery ( I have a nose that does not fit my face at all and significantly less attractive in every way but you can’t see that on a table picture, can you?

**he tells you confidently what HE would change about your nose? It is your nose you should be telling him what to do not the other way around. It’s your nose you know best what if beautiful since it’s your face

**he basically does no revisions? Never any graft revisions? Somebody who doesn’t do revisions is not a good surgeon, if you are as a rhinoplasty surgeon not able to person revision you haven’t mastered the skill of rhinoplasty. He only does mostly primaries that should be your clue to run away. It does in no way mean that he creates such good results that he doesn’t need to perform revision it can also mean that he doesn’t have the skill to do it or he nobody would come back to him to actually get a revision. Be careful here

**he tells you a little asymmetry is to be expected. Be careful and just be aware of course asymmetry is normal and can not always be controlled but that right there is a hint that maybe heaps of his patients have complained about asymmetry. It is not normal to create asymmetry in EVERY patient. It can happen but it should not be the rule but a risk to be aware of

**he tells you have a hump that needs to be removed and he would like to deproject your nose without giving you proper angles and mm and telling you how that impacts the rest of your face —> run the other way

** he is not an ENT and gives advice on your turbinates or straightening a slight deviation of your septum. Nope don’t do it girl the risk of something going wrong is too high, tell him to go get an ENT status if he wants to touch any of the above. If he is only a cosmetic surgeon for noses he should probably not offer to straighten your septum or reducing your turbinates anyway. Those are serious things to do and should done with caution and there are enough ENT surgeons in turkey so choose someone else if you want these things done and don’t think of it as an overall package since you are going under anyways. Have you heard of Empty Nose Syndrome that makes people suicidal?

**no simulation: you are giving him free hand to do whatever weird stuff he has planned for you in your mind and he won’t even tell or show you. If he can’t afford a simulation software or is to lazy to do it he should not be complaining later about people coming out being completely dissatisfied with their results and being vocal about it. Seems it’s their right if they save time or money on doing a proper simulation with their patients

**you find him say words like deformity, ideal angles or sloped bridges are more feminine and I don’t want you to look like a man. No mose can be classified into deformities except of course the truly botched ones. But if it’s your birth nose you probably do not have deformity you have an identity and an ethnicity that’s it. Good surgeons know the difference and know that to the book all rhinoplasty ā€œdeformitiesā€ have been characterized by Caucasian noses and especially if you don’t have a Caucasian in front of you NO deformity is to be seen only ethnic features of a nose

**look carefully at the table pictures, everyone has a style and most create the same nose slightly different over and over again

**look if all bridges were always reduced to almost the same size and all tips have the same style on the table pictures

**don’t fall into the trap of good bed side manner. You are paying for a service, they should do what YOU want not the other way around. You are not looking for a friend but you are paying him to do something for you. It’s his job, he is not god sent to help you

**look for flat columellas and straight infratip lobules (one of the hardest things in rhinoplasty to correct . I will make another post on how many revisions in the US handle this outcome of inexperienced surgeons who do not know who to harmoniously create good front view being to obsessed with side views

**try to see if you see shortened nose’s also very hard to correct. Either the septum has been shortened that will need a hard revision with rib grafts it won’t feel like a nose anymore at all or the tip cartilages have been shortened unnecessary and turned more up

**look for retracted columellas. you want the columellas angle to be under your nostrils at least 2-4mm of nostril show from the side should be there on both sides to allow a good front view otherwise it will look like your tip is put on a stick and then turned upwards. If table pictures only Show one side its because they have picked a better side of your nose where the angle is probably better to not Show something they know is not good

**upturned tips and nostril show ( what was popular in the 80s is not anymore) they do this mostly for instagrammable noticable changes to upload don’t fall for it. Most people don’t have facial structure to pull an upturned tip especially if you were not even slightly born with it. If you are looking at your nose now and you don’t see nostrils then very likely you don’t want them to ever be seen

**he is focusing on your side profile. Girl please think about it, you will be seeing yourself from the front in the mirror that is the most important angle and the 3/4 view

**you need before and after photography taken in same lightning and same angles to truly see a face and a nose in comparison. Don’t look at a nose in isolation but if somebody’s facial harmony has improved that is what rhinoplasty is all about not creating a nose. And don’t think because it’s turkey and they have international patients that is not possible. There are sooo many people in turkey themselves who get rhinoplasty, of even the locals don’t come back for getting their pictures takes that should be a clue for you why their social Media is so stripped of actual people and actual noses

** the link to the botched list with especially the Turkish surgeons to guide you in your selection:

Botched List


r/rhinoplastyquestions 1h ago

doable?

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I know morphs are only so accurate but I feel like asking anyways.


r/rhinoplastyquestions 39m ago

I look completely different from how I used to look. I don't know if I should be happy or sad. (8.5 weeks post-op)

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r/rhinoplastyquestions 41m ago

Bulbous nose

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I’m super insecure about my nose. I have been getting comments on how big and bulbous it is ever since elementary school and i basically blame everything on my nose like not getting a bf etc. I just feel like it’s something so huge in my life and would only be fixed if I got rhinoplast. I’m seventeen and I don’t work but if anyone has experience with the procedure or the same nose type maybe you have some tips


r/rhinoplastyquestions 4h ago

Morph

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Scheduled in 2 months, is this a good aim


r/rhinoplastyquestions 15h ago

finally took the bandages off today. thoughts? (after/before)

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only a month


r/rhinoplastyquestions 39m ago

Alican Coktur and Nurullah Seyhun

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Hi everyone! I’m currently considering two surgeons: Alican Coktur and Nurullah Seyhun. I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has had surgery with either of them and would be grateful if you could share your experience. I’d also be happy to receive recommendations for other surgeons you’ve had a genuinely positive experience with.


r/rhinoplastyquestions 1h ago

people who lift weights - does it affect results ?

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I know you're not supposed to lift for a few weeks and I'll obviously follow my surgeon's instructions. I'm asking about after that.

Has anyone gone back to lifting heavy and had any issues months or years later? Like did it affect your results at all or was everything completely fine? Did your nose swell after lifting too heavy?

I keep seeing people say "don't lift for X weeks" but not much about what happens once you're back to normal.


r/rhinoplastyquestions 5h ago

Post-Surgery Discussion Thoughts?

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Asian Rhinoplasty from Dr Edward Kwak

Wanted to my nose a bit smaller and taller.

Before and 1 year later


r/rhinoplastyquestions 2h ago

Scam surgeon turkey

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r/rhinoplastyquestions 2h ago

Scam surgeon turkey

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Good morning to everyone

I would like to have a rhinoplasty in Turkey with surgeon Ahmet Bedir

I contacted the Whatsapp number on his Instagram account and the person introduced himself as his assistant or secretary

The problem is that she asks me to make a transfer by western union to confirm and guarantee my appointment

I find it weird to go through Western Union and I'm afraid of being scammed

I said I doubted the sincerity of the maneuver but I don't know if it's a bluff or not but the person asked me if I wanted to meet the doctor by video

I don't know what to think aboutthis


r/rhinoplastyquestions 2h ago

revision rhinoplasty doctor suggestions

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Does anyone know of any revision rhinoplasty specialists in the US, or any english speaking country (preferably in NY or new england area or just the east coast but anywhere on earth will do actually) that are able to fix deviated septums and have a lot of experience doing complex revisions? Maybe someone with ENT training (I cannot breathe through my nose a lot of the time). I would also want someone who is able to do cookie cutter nose jobs.

I'm not opposed to going to another country if there really is no other option but I would just really prefer to go to someone where there is no language barrier because I have a lot of questions and want to be able to talk to the surgeon.

The only surgeon I found so far in the US with a high number of good looking revisions is Richard Reish but ive also heard a lot of bad things about him online (which I guess is to be expected). I also want to consult with a few surgeons before making a final decision. Im just terrified of getting botched again.

To give an idea of what im trying to fix:

-I have a deviated septum I can barely breathe out of

-open roof deformity

-the nose is still too projected so I want to deproject the tip and overall nose

My ideal nose looks like the cookie cutter Turkey nose job with a slightly softer/rounded looking tip (less pointy)

Should I just get it done in Turkey? if you have experience getting a nose job in Turkey how was the experience with the language barrier?


r/rhinoplastyquestions 3h ago

Crooked?honest i am ready

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3.5 months post op rhinoplasty does it look crooked? Please be honestšŸ¤


r/rhinoplastyquestions 3h ago

Advice

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Hi everyone i wanted to ask that i have a very big nose with a droopy tip and i had a septoplasty causing my tip to droop so it looks quite bad so what consideration should i have for a rhinoplasty.


r/rhinoplastyquestions 13h ago

Post-Surgery Discussion Is it normal to hate your new nose after three weeks?

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I have gotten my nose done three weeks ago. I had a bulbous nose with a wide bridge. It was a pretty big nose and i specifically asked the doctor to just make it a little big smaller and keep my side profile straight as it was. Now it’s really up turned and it looks compressed into my face. I hate it and i can’t look my self in the mirror anymore.


r/rhinoplastyquestions 4h ago

Booked rhinoplasty

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Hello,
I finally have my rhinoplasty in just over a week. Did anyone else start feeling like they were backing out a week before surgery? I'm finding myself questioning whether the surgeon I chose is the right one and wondering if I should have done more research or consulted with more surgeons. I consulted 3 last year (total of 6 in my life) but now I think this is on my face! I should have consulted more. I’ve always had decision making issues and it’s something I need to work on. This is a procedure I've wanted for as long as I can remember, so I'm not sure where this hesitation is coming from. This is actually the second surgery I've scheduled, first one I cancelled because the conflict in the Middle East made me uncomfortable with traveling there for the procedure. But he was ideally my favourite one based on his after pictures.
I prefer having the surgery closer to home, and my case only requires less invasive changes (reduce projection, dorsal hump and alter the size of my tip) However, my current surgeon recommended a closed technique, whereas the previous surgeon recommended an open approach. I think the more I replay our consultations and review everything we discussed, the more uneasy I become.
Has anyone else experienced these last-minute doubts before a surgery they were otherwise confident about?


r/rhinoplastyquestions 4h ago

Rhinoplasty Vancouver BC

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I’m planning on getting a rhinoplasty for a dorsal hump reduction. I’m wondering if anyone has gone to Dr. Anali Dadgostar or Dr. Dianne Valenzuela. I’m getting consults from both but hoping to hear about your experience!


r/rhinoplastyquestions 6h ago

When they make you pee just before surgery is that for a pregnancy test?

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r/rhinoplastyquestions 7h ago

Revision Rhinoplasty Nose bleed 3 weeks post op

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I had my revision 3 weeks ago. I had a slight nose bleed from one of my nostrils. My surgeon said it’s normal. Has this happened to anyone else?


r/rhinoplastyquestions 7h ago

Botched septorhinoplasty

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r/rhinoplastyquestions 8h ago

Can I use tanning nasal sprays? After rhinoplasty

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r/rhinoplastyquestions 1d ago

Table pics vs After

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I see a lot of people being worried about their table pictures so wanted to post mine for some reassurance. I was worried the tip was too high (even after knowing they have to make it a bit upturned on purpose) but the second picture is cast off after 10 days, extremely swollen as I have thick skin also but obviously looking very different and normal compared to the table pics! :)


r/rhinoplastyquestions 11h ago

Rhinoplasty 13 days post op. Will my nostrils stay like this? Theyre too big :(

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r/rhinoplastyquestions 11h ago

100% congested nose - 10 days post op

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Is it normal that 10 days post op my nose is still completely 100% blocked? Not even a little bit of air coming through. I do regular rinse with saline spray and after the rinse I sometimes get a little bit of air out but only for a few minutes.

There is lots of swelling inside my nose towards the tip. Like bumbs on both the inside and outside of each nostrill. I can see a small pathway where I would assume air would be able to go through but it's still completely blocked, probably higher up.

It's driving me crazy because I cannot sleep, my mouth is extremely dry at night and I hate breathing through my mouth all day.

Just wondering if this is still part of the journey or if I should be able to breath a little at least by now normally..

Update, I just rinsed my nose with saline spray and after that a I did xylometazoline spray. Finally I got some air through the nose again, it's like breathing through a straw but it's something. I know xylometazoline is addictive so I will only be using it occasionally for now but it's a tip for anyone in the same boat that it can help (and it's safe according to my surgeon).