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Sunken Eyes After Rhinoplasty Normal?

I had rhinoplasty done 2 years ago and I feel like my eyes look sunken and hollow after the rhinoplasty. Is this a normal complication from rhinoplasty.

7 Doctor Answers | Asked by neel312 in maryland
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Sunken Eyes After Rhinoplasty

Normally you see black and blue eyes with some swelling in the sift tissue around the eyes which makes them look sunken. However, your eyes do not become sunken because of bruising because that would require loss of fat underneath the eyeball, which does not happen with a rhinoplasty so it is a secondary phenomenon to the swelling of the skin around the eyes.
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Sunken Eyes after Rhinoplasty

I don't believe sunken eyes is a complication of a rhinoplasty. I would consult your plastic surgeon. see video
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Sunken Eyes After Rhinoplasty

Dear Neel, As a short answer, rhinoplasty does not have a direct effect over the eyes. Without a photographs of before and after status, it is hard to determine the exact cause of what you are perceiving. Nonetheless, it is common that when the dimensions of your nose changes that you may perceive your eyes sunken. Thank you for your inquiry. Dr. Sajjadian

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Sunken eyes after rhinoplasty

The eyes were not changed with the rhinoplasty. Changes in nasal form can give the illusion of eye changes though. Donald R. Nunn MD Atlanta Plastic Surgeon.
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Sunken Eyes after Rhinoplasty

I so far never came across this issue after a nose job.You might have undergone some weight loss that you are not ware of.
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Sunken eyes after rhinoplasty is not a complication I'm aware of.

Sunken eyes after rhinoplasty is not a complication I'm aware of. I have been doing rhinoplasty for more than 35 years and have never seen this happen.
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Rhinoplasty sunken eyes

Rhinoplasty per se do not affect the eyes. What sometimes occur is that with reduction of the hump the eyes look a little away from each other but this is an illusion not a true change. If there was some weight loss or relaxation of the facial tissues then the eyes can look sunken due to the cheek and skin migration downward.
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It really bothers me how every single surgeon or physician comment follows the same spoon fed medical response to the question. Every single one says something about how the swelling probably hasn't gone down completely. Look, most of us know you just say that to make us feel alright about whatever it is we're worried about. Its amazing how doctors bullshit their way out of taking responsibility for something they did wrong, or how they evade perfectly good medically engaged questions by sticking to their 'by the book' uniform "medically agreed upon" answers that aren't necessarily, in any way, right at all. I had a septoplasty 4 years ago and the doctor gave me the same swelling bullshit answer for almost a year until she finally caved and agreed that the quadrangular cartilage had been bent over completely to one side after the surgery. For a whole year, every time I went into her office about how I couldn't breath on one side of my nostril at all, she would just put me on a 2 week prescription of antibiotics and steroids to reduce the swelling, and when I'd go in, she would swap my nose with this afrin-like medication that opened up my nasal cavity by reducing the swelling of my nasal tissues, and she would take a look inside my nose, right at the bent over cartilage I was trying to explain to her, and would straight up tell me it was still swollen from the surgery 6 months prior. So when I hear a question about the sunken eyes effect - which I also had and still have after the second septoplasty I had to make up for the first one - and I hear answers about how your still swollen - I get really irritated. Every single doctor says the same thing, and they're all completely wrong. They are all trying to protect their life's profession, doing nose jobs, by denying their patients the truth about what the impacts of doing a surgery like a rhinoplasty actually does to you. And we have to suffer through not knowing what is going on with our bodies after something like that, because of the ego's and self defenses of these doctors. It really irritates me. Please, do some medical research, be real doctors, and let us know why we all feel so drained out and weakened after getting these nose surgeries done. Does it have something to do with the importance of the protruding nasal septum on our facial profiles in the strength of our brow/eye area? Does it have something to do with the actual tissue being removed from our faces? It might threaten your careers, but at least it gives justice to your patients you so genuinely presume to be "helping".
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