I received my surgery at the end of May. My nose is oily, thick-skinned. When I first got my cast taken off, my nose was very crooked and asymmetrical. The dr. injected me w/ a kenalog injection that day, and then two weeks later before I moved out of state. It's been 6 mos. and my nose is still very hard, swollen and off-center. I am worried about internal scarring, and the fact that it hasn't improved. Is it okay if I wait until December for another kenalog injection?
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If the nose looks displaced with a bump or off-center and looks different than before the accident, it is likely fractured. X-rays amy miss it, and cartilage fractures do not project on x-rays too well if at all.
It is certainly acceptable to undergo rhinoplasty for a broken nose that occurred many years ago. To straighten a curved nose, medial and lateral osteotomies must be performed. In many instances a cartilage spreader graft will be inserted underneath the upper lateral cartilage on the concave...
Every case is different. Some people do well with one procedure and not with another. If depends on multiple factors, some which the surgeon has no control over. Good luck. Donald R. Nunn MD Atlanta Plastic Surgeon.
