How to Reduce Swelling and Puffiness After Nose Surgery?

I know it is hard to be patient, but time is the best medicine. Sometimes light massage can be helpful, but please consult with your surgeon first.

Vickyc, I'm sorry to hear of your injuries. Swelling with nasal surgery occurs both on the outside and inside of the nose. For elective nasal surgery, most patients are generally "restaurant ready" and socially acceptable within 2 weeks. Most nasal swelling with rhinoplasty resolves within a month. The final swelling takes a much longer time to resolve, up to a year or longer after surgery. Fortunately, this final swelling is usually only evident to the surgeon and patient... more

Unfortunately, with that much trauma and the necessary reconstruction, most patients will have significant swelling for many, many months...perhaps as long as a year or longer. I hate to say it, but there is no proven or reliable way to reduce this sort of post-operative and post-traumatic swelling. In fact, many times patients can actually make things worse by trying to speed up the process or by excessively manipulating the face. But there is a silver lining to all of this which is that time i more