Rhinoplasty swelling

Swelling after a Rhinoplasty surgery can be present up to 1 year post-surgery depending upon the extent of the procedure itself. Generally, the majority of swelling goes away in the first 4-6 months, but it can take up to 1 year for the results of your Rhinoplasty to truly be seen properly. The main thing is... more

Yes, it is completely normal for you to have swelling three weeks after rhinoplasty. This is especially true fot the lower one third of the nose. In some cases, swlling can persist for a year or even longer.

In the majority of cases the average uninformed person will not realize an individual had rhinoplasty surgery within 3 weeks of a surgery. Depending on whether tip work is done and the extent of the procedure, it can take a full year for the swelling to resolve.  Luckily, most is gone in 3 to 6 months.... more

Post - Rhinoplasty nasal swelling lasts up to 1-12 months in some form. However, while you SHOULD STILL have nasal swelling 3 weeks after your surgery it should not be extreme. You may want to check with your surgeon.

 Majority of the swelling goes away after a couple of months usually. It is totally normal to still have some swelling at three weeks. Some of the swelling will persist, and take about a year to gradually go away.

While rhinoplasty patients look good enough to resume their normal schedule by 7-10 days, some swelling in the tip skin is present for months. The textbook answer given by rhinoplasty surgeons is 1 year for all swelling to be gone. It just takes time for the skin to become supple again.... more

 Most patients may have bruising and obvious welling for 1-3 weeks. After this, although swelling exists, it usually subsides enough so that the nose does not look as though it has been injured.  Residual swelling may take as long as 6 month to totally subside.  However, this is relatively... more

When I was a resident 25 years ago, I was taught that it takes a year to see the final result from a rhinoplasty.  This has to do with, not only remodeling of the tissue, but also resolution of the swelling.  I tell my patients that 50% of the swelling is gone in two weeks and 70% in two months... more

Swelling after a rhinoplasty can be vary patient to patient and is related to how complex the rhinoplasty surgery was.  At 1 week, it is very common to be very swollen, but over the next 2 weeks people are usually only minimally swollen.  Most of our patients in Naples, Florida return to school or... more

Yes - it is very normal to have significant swelling at 3 weeks.  Generally at 1 month, most people you meet for the first time will not know that you have had nasal surgery, but the swelling will take much longer to resolve.  Typically, it takes 6 months for swelling to disappear from the bridge,... more