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Is Having Your Splints Removed After Rhinoplasty/septoplasty Painful?
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Removing internal septal splint and external nose splint
In the majority of cases internal septal splints are not needed after a rhinoplasty or septoplasty. In the rare event they are used, there is some discomfort upon removal. The external splint on top of the nose holding the nasal shape is mildly uncomfortable when removed.
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Nasal Splint Removal
Remoal of internal nasal splints, adjacent to the septum, or the external nasal cast is not painful except in the occasional patient with a very low pain threshold, who experiences mild discomfort. Share your concern with your surgeon and take a pain pill before the splints are removed.
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Nasal Splint Removal After Rhinoplasty
Some Surgeons use internal nasal splints ( made of soft silicone) for Septorhinoplasty, some do not. I personally prefer to use a "septal Quilting stitch" with absorbable suture, obviating the need for use of nasal splints. Although removal of nasal packing and/or nasal splints is not the world's most pleasant experience, it can generally be accomplished without significant discomfort. As has been previously been mentioned on this post, modern nasal...
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Nasal Splint Removal After Rhinoplasty or Septoplasty
Internal nasal splints are used by many nasal surgeons to help support the nasal septum. These splints are generally made of silicone and removed around one week following rhinoplasty or deviated septum surgery.
While there is a wide range of experiences, most patients do not complain about pain when removing internal nasal splints after nasal surgery. More commonly they report a strange sensation and brief, mild discomfort.
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Splint removal is the most painful part
Having said that, the degree of pain is mild. The urban legend that the removal of nasal packing is 'like having your brains pulled out through your nose' is no longer true for rhinoplasty. It arose from years back we layered thin ribbon gauze into the nose. That was painful. Nowadays that's 'old school' and most of us use flexible plastic stents which come out easily.
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Minimizing pain with nasal splint removal after rhinoplasty
The experience of pain with splint removal varies widely among patients. Factors that affect the pain or discomfort include: patient emotional makeup (e.g., anxiety about it increases pain), severity of swelling from surgery, extensiveness of the work inside the nose, and the gentleness of the surgeon removing them. Most patient, though, do not complain of much pain with this process.
Also, if there's a lot of bloody crusting around the splints, those scabs can pull on nose...
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Splints removed after rhinoplasty
Usually no there is no to minimal discomfort in removing the nasal splints. Rarely some patients have pain but just slow down the removal process.
From MIAMI DR. B
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Splints after Rhinoplasty
Hi,
Removing splints after rhinoplasty is at most uncomfortable. That being said, everyone has different pain tolerances.
Best,
Dr.S.
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Removing nasal packing and splints after rhinoplasty should be painless
Years ago, when I trained, we put a lot more packing in the nose and left it in for many days. Now, much less packing is used and it is often removed after one day. This has little discomfort and actually a relief to get the packing out. Even taking off the cast, if done gently is painless.
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Splint removal after septoplasty
Having been through this myself, I can say that after my septum was repaired by Dr. Gunter in Dallas (the best in my opinion!), my splints were removed after 6 days. It was strange and uncomfortable but not painful. So from one who knows, not to worry.
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