Risk of silicone implant vs rib vs cartilage

[yayas]

This is so helpful! Is it more popular to use donated or your own rib cartilage?

could be wrong but from what I’ve seen online, it’s more popular to use your own cartilage. The reason why rib cartilage is popular is because you don’t want a foreign material, and the body is less likely to reject your own body material(it’s not a high chance of rejecting silicone or donated rib but the rate is higher then your own rib). Using donated rib would count as foreign.

Other then that, using donated would mean you don’t need to recover from your ribs and is usually cheaper. If you’re doing revision, you may have no choice but to use donated.

 

[natyabusiness]

I did silicone for mine, my friend used rib because it was her second surgery. I'm only 6 months in since the surgery but my friend is almost three years now! Both are all good No infection what so ever. I don't think you have to worry too much!

 

[liltay]

This is so informative thank you so much! All the clinics give me the choice of using your own or donated and when i ask them whats the difference they say no difference so i was suuuper confused

 

[yayas]

It also depends on what you want! I just did my rhinoplasty, I had to use silicone for the bridge and rib for the tip, it’s because I wanted a lifted tip and to raise my nose bridge, but I didn’t want a straight nose, I wanted my tip to be round and my bridge to be slightly curved, you can see my photos in my recently post. So the doctor said I wouldn’t be able to use just my ribs or else it would be the straight kind that I didn’t want. The straight nose is pretty popular right now so many people just use their ribs or silicone but usually not both.

 

[lhea]

I did silicone for the bridge and my own rib cartilage for the tip last year. So far, everything is great.

Hi. How was your recovery from rib area? How painful it is? your reply would be very much appreciated 😊

 

[97magnolia]

Did your doctor run by you the pros and cons of cadaver vs cartilage? Had a few consultations and most said there was not much difference

 

[bbclvr]

Does anyone have experience with donated fascia? Or know of surgeons who specialize in that (aside from Chris kim at First Button). I only want a tiny bit of height added to my bridge so I don’t think a lot of doctors will suggest rib for me and still have some tiny reservations about silicone

 

[kxchan]

I had a very low nose bridge like you too it almost looked carved out so they had to add quite a big piece so they went for silicon implant and so far everything is fine it looks very natural and i dont expect any problems, for smokers it might be though so speak about it with your surgeon

 

[lalaland1997]

Hi. How was your recovery from rib area? How painful it is? your reply would be very much appreciated 😊

Hi, recovery is good. The pain, I would say, is just 1/10, but if you stretch (as getting up), it would be a 3/10, but that is just for the first 3 days. Other than that, I did not feel anything else.

 

[lalaland1997]

Thanks for sharing your experience! I've been wanting to do a nose surgery too but was too scared when I heard about using our own rib cartilage

At first, I was expected to use my septum and ear cartilage. However, during the consultation and X-ray, I was told to use my rib. It was unexpected, but I'm glad I did it.