My nose is 3x time bigger after rhinoplasty!! 7 days post op, is this normal?

Thank you for sharing your question.  In my practice, I advise my patients to wait 6 weeks post rhinoplasty before wearing eye glasses and sunglasses. This is to prevent any disruption of the healing process and to allow for a nice silhouette of the nasal dorsum. You can certainly wear contacts ...

Since it has only been one week it is too early to tell if the bump will remain. I suspect it will continue to improve fit several months but just takes time and patience.

Great question. Most Surgeon still use permanent sutures in the nose to stabilise cartilage grafts etc. They can extrude rarely, but no one knows the true extrusion rate. There are just too many variables, size of suture, area of placement in the nose, thin skin,...

Hello and thank you for your question.  The best advice you can receive is from an in-person consultation.  A cleft in the medial crura of the lower lateral cartilage can be fixed during surgery.   Make sure you specifically look at before and after pictures of real patients who have had this ...

First of all, I doubt you nose is "hollow." Perhaps your cartilages are soft, and it doesn't feel as though there's a lot under the skin. However, the width of your tip, and the droopiness of your tip, and the strong forward projection of your nose away from your face, all indicate good strong...

Thank you for your question.  The pictures are a little hard to see on the site (quite small), but the overall shape issued is visible.  I have never used the Spirox device, but I would doubt that it could achieve what you are looking for.  I would talk it over with a board certified Plastic Sur...