Dusica Jakovljevic faces seventh nose surgery using rib bone
The presenter revealed she is awaiting another nose reconstruction, for which doctors will need to take part of a bone from her rib, after a series of earlier procedures.
- Presenter Dusica Jakovljevic has announced her seventh nose surgery.
- For the reconstruction, doctors will need to take part of a bone from her rib.
- She previously had six non-surgical sinus procedures done with radio waves.
- An earlier nose-reduction surgery collapsed during healing.
Television presenter Dusica Jakovljevic revealed on 6 June that she is facing another nose operation, the seventh in total, for which doctors will need to take part of a bone from her rib in order to build a new nasal structure. She spoke about it calmly, describing it as a medical process she has been going through for years rather than as a sensation.
Jakovljevic explained that her earlier procedures are often wrongly read as a string of operations. In reality, she said, it has been a combination of non-surgical treatments and a single operation that did not deliver the expected result, leaving reconstruction necessary now.
Why a rib bone is needed
The presenter had previously undergone a nose-reduction operation which, she says, collapsed during the healing process. As a result, the nasal structure can no longer be repaired with a standard procedure, so doctors plan to use the patient’s own tissue, in this case part of a bone from the rib.
Jakovljevic commented on that decision quietly, almost with humour:
“The doctor told me we would have to build the structure from a rib, and I said to him: I knew I would be both Adam and Eve to myself.”
She also noted that she has a genetic tendency towards a deviation, which made the earlier attempts at correction more difficult. Seen from that angle, the seventh procedure is a continuation of an already long medical path rather than a new cosmetic intervention.
Six procedures that were not surgeries
Jakovljevic stressed that the public often miscounts the number of procedures. Part of what is presented as a series of operations was in fact non-surgical sinus treatment.
- six non-surgical sinus procedures, done with radio waves
- one nose-reduction surgery that collapsed during healing
- an upcoming seventh operation, a reconstruction using rib bone
“It happened that I had six sinus procedures, non-surgical, done with radio waves.”
In this way the presenter tried to separate the medical reality from a tabloid reading in which any procedure on the face is easily turned into a story about aesthetics. In her case, as she put it, the matter is above all a health problem and its resolution.
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