Hi Ruby,
Shoko is not happy with the nose and upper lip lift done by Dr Bellinga recently, but I am.
I would love to see fotos of her nose and ULL before and after surgery but unless I do, I will not comment or give an opinion, for what it's worth.
I had a poor nose job and upper lip lift done in the USA in February 2004 and Dr Bellinga has done a good job on mine.
It was a very difficult procedure too as it was my third nose job.
In fact my complex forehead procedure took just 90 minutes but the rhinoplasty/ULL took 150 minutes. Total 4 hours and then 8 hours in recovery just to keep an eye on me due to my age.
So it's all a matter of opinion and personal taste whether you like a rhinoplasty or not.
Having had three attempts at my nose, now I am 100% happy although it's still very early days since the surgery ( three weeks and three days ), and it will be months before I see the final result which I will share with you all in due course.
The first few days after a rhinoplasty the nose almost always looks great and then the healing starts in earnest and the swelling starts and you think "Ohmigod "- what have I done and the surgeon has messed up.
With my healing process anyway, my nose always starts to look worse and worse for the first few weeks after surgery and then slowly it gets better. With others I have seen nose jobs that look good even after a month's healing has taken place. We all heal differently and at different rates.
The last five days or so, my
top lip has become numb and fatter whereas a week ago it was not numb and less fat.
It also makes drinking and eating more difficult.
But I accept this although I don't like it as people look at me and see that I have had surgery. Yesterday when I was at an event, I kept telling people who I know that I had some cosmetic surgery when they asked what was wrong with my face as they were concerned that I had an accident.
All that I can say is you have to have patience with any surgery while the body takes time to heal.
What us girls go through eh to get where we wish to go?
I have seen in person around thirty of Facial Team's patients in London when they have been in consultation here and also in Spain who have had rhinoplasties with FT's Dr Bellinga and everyone looked good and I mean that 100%.
So I highly recommend FT for noses.
Here is my before foto with the piggy and too short nose for my face and ineffective ULL which was made even worse by the weight of the fat put in during surgery in the USA in 2004.
and after surgery in April with a decent sized nose, much better ULL and fat removed.
Just out of interest to you all. here is my nose about three weeks after my 2nd rhinoplasty in 2004 (USA) and look what a mess it looked. It took over a year for the nose and ULL scar to fully heal. To be fair, the ULL scar was hardly noticeable once it had healed but the nose was always incorrect for my face and I was left with a raised ridge below my right alars after it had healed. Dr Bellinga has removed that scar/ridge from the 2004 surgery when he performed the fresh ULL and also improved the right alarpasty incision from 2004.
* Note also the over raised eyebrows !!! My bruising by the way from my recent surgery has now gone so what a difference then from 2004. Using an endoscope usually causes more disturbance to the soft tissues which you don't get with an open procedure.
Another foto of my face five weeks after surgery in 2004.
You can see also the poor forehead result due to burring whereas now my forehead is properly feminised.
Today I was seen by two friends of mine who had surgery also by the same surgeon as mine from 2004 and they were very impressed with my forehead/nose and ULL so far. But as we agreed, it's all too swollen at this moment before making a final judgement.
Incidentally if an ULL scar needs it, it can always be lasered to improve it's appearance down the healing road.
You are always going to get patients who are not satisfied with some or all aspects of their FFS, that's part of the game, so to speak.
Hugs
Paula
PS.
Here is a foto of me taken at 23 weeks and 5 days after my Feb 2004 rhinoplasty and ULL in the USA ( 6 months later in August 2004). See the ULL scarring/redness/swelling still which finally went away and the scar eventually was very good to be fair to the surgeon. Also my nose is less swollen but still piggy like. The whole surgery took another year to look optimal but during this time I had to travel to the USA and have kenalog (steroid) injections to my nose especially the right side which coincidentally is the most swollen part right now.
As the forehead swelling had largely subsided, you can also now see that the forehead was already looking poor and the transition area below my forehead and above my nose was never worked on/feminised in 2004.
My forehead 3D CT Scan in May 2015 before my April FT surgery
and afterwards two days after the surgery. What a difference !!!
