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Once the cast is removed usually after 1 week, your face will feel puffy and the area around your eyes and nose will be bruised and swollen for several days. Cold compresses can help minimize the swelling and reduce pain. Your doctor may also recommend pain medicine. It takes about 10 to 14 days before most of the swelling and bruising improves. Keep in mind everyone heals differently and tolerates pain differently.
No, you should not be worried. If it is only a stitch fragment, you might be able to rub it out. Otherwise, see your plastic surgeon.
It is unusual to see a stitch come out through the nasal bridge. It is imperative that you follow up with your rhinoplasty surgeon to be evaluated and see if this is something that can just be removed in the office. Regardless of the stitch, make sure that you follow up regularly to closely monitor you for any changes and als address any concerns along the way. Best of luck.
This shouldn't be a big deal. Have a visit with your surgeon, and they probably can just trim it down. In the meanwhile, treat the area with antibiotic ointment twice a day. Good luck!
A suture at the bridge of the nose after a rhinoplasty is unusual. You should give your plastic surgeon a call to schedule a day for him or her to take a look at you. Best wises.
Thanks for the question. You can wear your piercing after 6 years. In my practice 1-2 months is enough time to wait. Then, if you talk to your surgeon and get approval, there is no obstacle to having a piercing. I wish you all the best.
The nose is like a pyramid, if you rasp the nasal bones the top of the pyramid becomes separated, so that the tissues that drape the nose (the skin) looks blunted and not as sharp, so the nose looks less projecting and appears wider. To overcome that, Plastic Surgeons for decades have been...
There is only a small amount of cartilage resorption that can occur in patients. Typically only up to 20% of cartilage resorption, if any, occurs by five year mark then stabilizes for long-term. However, cartilage resorption very rarely takes place for patients who have had surgery.