I feel like the part of my septum where my scar is goes on a downhill slope causing my whole nose to look off/bad and I'm wondering if this was bad reconnecting on the surgeons part or if it is swollen too and that will subside along with the rest of my nose swelling. It appears that the scar line is broken up into two different levels, as seen in the photo. I'm very concerned about this. Photos are attached. Thank you
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In our practice, when patients are claustrophobic and want to undergo any type of nasal surgery, we place a small injection of cortisone into the inferior turbinates on the internal portion of the nose to prevent swelling from occurring. We do not place any plastic stents /packing...
Dear Findinghappy,We recommend our septorhinoplasty patients to hold until at least 7 days post-op before gently blowing their nose. I would follow-up with your surgeon about the newly discovered dorsal hump.
Nasal growth
is not complete until your daughter has gone through puberty, and so it would
be best to wait until that time — age 14 or 15. Some of the increase in her
bump now could be due to growth. I have seen many patients even without a
history of trauma develop a bump sometime during t...
