Nasal valve collapse following open primary rhinoplasty (Photo)

Hello,Thank you for the question and provided photos, Since you are in your healing phase, you have edema and swelling until you complete your healing which is at least one year long you will have edema&swelling and before completing your healing any intervention should not be performed.Nasal valve collapse occurs when the narrow part of airway weakens due to alterations, it collapses.You need to wait your healing process to be completed.Regards,

It does sound strange but providing good support for the nasal sidewall can actually make the tip look smoother and smaller. Your right nostril looks to be collapsing which makes the tip look wider and bulky. Using cartilage to restore the normal contour and strength can reduce the shadows and look better as well. Although it is only 7 months this problem most likely will not solve itself and surgery may be your best choice. make sure you work with an experience rhinoplasty surgeon who understands your functional and aesthetic concerns. 

Let's comment, firstly, on your preoperative nose; it was featured by two technical challenges not all the surgeons are comfortable or familiar with:-a difficult bulbous, rounded and severely asymmetrical tip; this would have required high end structure rhinoplasty procedures, few different grafting options and a full reshaping of the tip, for sure with tip grafting and massive defatting; eventually with lateral cruras symmetrization by batten or strut grafting, even a full lateral crura replacement so the support tripod to the tip would not be leaning towards one side; needless to say this was not done and instead an aggressive weaking of the lateral cruras has lead to nostril collapse, nasal valve collapse and an unsightly tip-secondly, but the one less surgeons are expert in dealing with, you suffered from a broad humpless dorsum with rectangular shape; there are 3 kinds of broad humpless dorsums: hourglass (broad radix, narrow middle vault and broad supratip), rhomboid (narrow radix, broad middle vault and pinched supratip) and the rectangular, yours, in which the broadness affects all the entire dorsal lenght somehow equally (all radix, middle vault and supratip are broad); the treatment of a broad dorsum with a prominent hum is simple: cut away the hump and the broad dorsum comes with the "lid" or "roof" you remove; but... if the dorsum has no hump or is a minimal hump... then the tempting but disastrous option is lowering it as much as the broadness is gone, this leads to a saddle nose deformity or sunken dorsum and I am afraid is your case, furthermore leaves the dorsum even broader; the treatment of a broad humpless dorsum (of any of its 3 kinds) is a paremedial resection of cartilage and bone without lowering itSee the link below to find few cases of my own practice very similar to yours which I had the opportunity to operate successfully on, sharing a lot of common features with the technical problem you have posted.Better images would help to a thorough assessment or might modify my previous opinion, in any case I recommend you seek the advice and hands of a serious professional who offers to you a
time-consuming and expensive procedure; stay far from minimally
invassive snake-charming procedures, synthetic implants, fillers,
wrapped diced cartilage, etc.
Difficulty 6-8 out of 10 in revision rhinoplasties, surgical time about 4-6 hours (in expert hands, could be even longer).
If you wish better grounded opinion well lit, focused and standard
images have to be assessed: frontal, both lateral and both oblique
views, from underneath.
Feel free to request any additional information from me.