Joseph M. Ardito, MD

So my father has a large wide nose and my mother has a typical Italian honker; throw that together and you get my nose. I am a lacrosse player and I was drilled in the nose with a lacrosse ball at practice once day which made things pretty complicated. My breathing had been affected by it so I decided to do something about it. Last year I had a septoplasty to repair my messed up septum and that was done perfect. The septum was even and looked very nice and helped out my breathing to an extent. However, after I got hit with the lax ball a large bump appeared on my nose and I had trouble breathing yet again. So I went back to my surgeon and asked him if he could fix it and he said he would also repair my wide base with rhinoplasty; as well as my downward tip with an alar base resection. I'm still not sure how but the insurance has covered every one of my surgerys which I'm pretty thankful for. Anyways, my surgery was August 5th and I'm moving to California August 23rd for college so I'm hoping this recovery goes quickly so I'm ready for school in time! Updated on 11 Aug 2015: Can't wait to get this splint off tomorrow and see what's cookin underneath Updated on 11 Aug 2015: Splint comes off at 1:30 and stitches are getting removed . I'll be sure to drop some pics as soon as it's revealed Updated on 12 Aug 2015: So I got the splint off today. I really am happy with how this turned out. I'm still very swollen so I don't know exactly how it's going to look but right now it looks great to me. The doctor removed the stitches from the outside of my nose from the alar base resection and the stitches inside my nose will dissolve he told me. I'll put up some more photos later since I'm in a car right now but here's one for now. Updated on 12 Aug 2015: