Rhinoplasty: Q&A
Ask a QuestionAfter Rhinoplasty Surgery Will I Need Nasal Packing?
Does everyone need nasal packing after a rhinoplasty? It sounds really uncomfortable.
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Want to know the most significant complaint we hear...
Want to know the most significant complaint we hear about after Rhinoplasty surgery? It’s not pain, pressure, headache, or even discomfort. In fact, rhinoplasty is rarely very painful. The symptom we hear about most is nasal congestion.
Most surgeons still use some form of packing or splint in the nose after surgery to reduce bleeding. These can either be merocel, ribbon gauze, xeroform or a variety of other forms of packing. The end result unfortunately is more discomfort for the...
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Nasal packing after Rhinoplasty
Typically, we don't use nasal packing unless there's an absolute need. It all depends on the amount of work your septum is getting and that is determined at teh time of surgery. Every rhinoplasty is different so you never really know what you're going to end up with when you're talking about details like this one.
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DoctorMeade
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Packing is rarely needed with rhinoplasty
Routine packing of the nose is not required with modern rhinoplasty techniques. Any surgeon who performs rhinoplasty on a regular basis should be able to place dissolving sutures inside the nose (called quilting sutures) that make packing unnecessary.
Over the past 1,000 rhinoplasty procedures that I have performed there was only one patient who required overnight nasal packing due to persistent oozing.
Packing is very uncomfortable when it is inside the nose, and even more uncomfortable...
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Nasal Packing After Rhinoplasty
In almost all cases of rhinoplasty you can avoid packing the nose, which translates into a much more comfortable recovery for the patient. I have not 'packed' the nose in over 7 years now. In the past, this was done commonly to help minimize chances of bleeding the early recovery phase and to help encourage the internal lining of the nose to heal quicker. In most cases of septoplasty and rhinoplasty, an absorbable suture can be used inside of the nose to accomplish the same goal...
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Nasal Packing after surgery.
Its been at least 5 years since i used nasal packing! I used to pack all my noses because that was what I was taught in training. I found my patients were uncomfortable and were very frightened by what all their friends told them about packing. Since I have stopped using packing I have not had any more bleeding than when I used packing. If i do need to put something in the nose it is usually a small amount of material that stops minor bleeding. This material I use...
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Some pack routinely, but I almost never pack the nose
Packing is used mostly to prevent bleeding. In most cases, I do not find there to be significant bleeding by the time I am completing surgery. I will place thin splints inside the nose if I do work on the septum during surgery. But patients can breath around these spints and they do not cause discomfort.
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Nasal packing
Placing packing in the nose depends on the surgeon's preference. While the term "packing" often reminds patients of a long string placed in the nose after surgery as done in the "old days" and often told stories of removing large amounts of gauze.
However, surgeons sometimes place small pieces of cotton in the nostrils that are not uncomfortable and barely felt. Removal is often easy and painless. The purpose of the small cotton ball is to prevent any...
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Nasal packing not required - depends on surgeon preference
The decision to pack your nose after Rhinoplasty will depend on the surgeon's preference. In my opinion nasal packing is very uncomfortable for patients and not necessary. For this reason I NEVER pack my noses after rhinoplasty whether it be a comsetic rhinoplasty, functional nose surgery, or a combination. Instead I use dissolvable sutures on the septum that you will never notice.
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Nasal packing after rhinoplasty surgery
I amost never use nasal packing because it is indeed uncomfortable and in my extensive experience, it is unnecessary in most cases. In the rare instance that a patient has a severe nosebleed one week postoperatively, nasal packing would then be indicated.
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Nasal packing is a thing of the past for rhinoplasty
I think most surgeons, including myself, don't ever use nasal packing at the time of rhinoplasty and or septoplasty. The only rare exception would be someone abnormally bleeding at the end of the procedure. This has happened to only 1 of my patients out of thousands over the last 13 years.
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