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Long story short, I got a full wrap around jaw and cheekbone implant by a famous surgeon who recently lost his license. The surgery took 12 hours and at one point they almost rushed me to the emergency room because my heart rate was extremely high and would not lower
The first two weeks of recovery were probably the most physically painful moments of my life - turns out the right cheekbone implant had been infected.
I get it removed and even then I get the infection again, puss started coming out of the corner of my eye like crazy. Now I have a gash next to my eye that’s pretty large.
By this point I’ve spent at least 45k on hotels flights surgery etc so when he promised to replace the implant for free I was happy. (I had to wait 8 months basically hidden away because I only had a cheekbone on my left side of my face that whole time)
He replaces it finally, he offered to fix my right and left eye because after he placed the cheekbone implants he didn’t stitch my eyes how they used to be and they were droopy.
After the last visit he couldn’t remove a stitch from left eye (the perfectly healthy one) and says it’ll fall off in a few months - it didn’t and I have a gash now. My right eye looks a little better but it is still droopy and he left a stitch there too.
It’s been 10 months, my “healthy” left eye has a yellow ball forming where the stitch is still and my right eye still has the stitch. I’m going have to spend more money getting a third surgery to fix my eyes which sucks at least I’m alive.
The right cheekbone implant, that has caused my eye to get cut open three times in the span of a year and a half is malplaced in my opinion. Everything is symmetrical but where the implant meet my nose, it is raised up and you can see it, not like my left side. It leaves a strong shadow and I can physically press down on it and feel it rest on the bone, meaning it’s bent up.
This has probably been the worst year and a half of my life, my face has permanent scars and I’m down over 50 grand.
I have to have my eye surgery in Turkey bc I’ve already spent so much.
Should I replace both cheekbone implants? Should I see a specialist who can cut me open and fix the edge he didn’t tuck in? I’m really lost and I could use some actual advice.
Here’s pics of the implant and of the scars in my eye area for whoever is curious
The first two weeks of recovery were probably the most physically painful moments of my life - turns out the right cheekbone implant had been infected.
I get it removed and even then I get the infection again, puss started coming out of the corner of my eye like crazy. Now I have a gash next to my eye that’s pretty large.
By this point I’ve spent at least 45k on hotels flights surgery etc so when he promised to replace the implant for free I was happy. (I had to wait 8 months basically hidden away because I only had a cheekbone on my left side of my face that whole time)
He replaces it finally, he offered to fix my right and left eye because after he placed the cheekbone implants he didn’t stitch my eyes how they used to be and they were droopy.
After the last visit he couldn’t remove a stitch from left eye (the perfectly healthy one) and says it’ll fall off in a few months - it didn’t and I have a gash now. My right eye looks a little better but it is still droopy and he left a stitch there too.
It’s been 10 months, my “healthy” left eye has a yellow ball forming where the stitch is still and my right eye still has the stitch. I’m going have to spend more money getting a third surgery to fix my eyes which sucks at least I’m alive.
The right cheekbone implant, that has caused my eye to get cut open three times in the span of a year and a half is malplaced in my opinion. Everything is symmetrical but where the implant meet my nose, it is raised up and you can see it, not like my left side. It leaves a strong shadow and I can physically press down on it and feel it rest on the bone, meaning it’s bent up.
This has probably been the worst year and a half of my life, my face has permanent scars and I’m down over 50 grand.
I have to have my eye surgery in Turkey bc I’ve already spent so much.
Should I replace both cheekbone implants? Should I see a specialist who can cut me open and fix the edge he didn’t tuck in? I’m really lost and I could use some actual advice.
Here’s pics of the implant and of the scars in my eye area for whoever is curious
