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Thanks for your post. In all likelihood, you should be fine despite the prolonged time with your splints in place. One concern, however, with the intranasal splints is whether your doctor is keeping you on antibiotics during these 14 days. Generally, it is not advisable to keep a foreign body in the nose for that long without prophylactic coverage.
Each surgeon has their own preference when to remove splints or post-operative bandages. This is frequently around the one week time period. I would talk with your surgeon and see if she/he has a specific reason to keep it on longer. If it is due to your surgeon's travel schedule, and you are concerned perhaps you could consider changing the date of your surgery to one that fits both of your schedules better.
Good morning! Do not worry about having the splints in for 14 days! Splints can be left for varying amounts of time between 7 to 14 days. It will not affect the end result at all. There are many occasions where splints will be left for 14 days on purpose for healing. Do make sure you keep taking antibiotics while the splints are in place. Happy healing.
A rhinoplasty is required to reset the crooked nasal bones by placement of osteotomies in them. This must be done under general anesthesia by a board-certified physician anesthesiologist. Patients simply cannot tolerate the amount of pain it would take to straighten them without being put to...
Threads will not be the best solution to treat your nose. It sounds like you would likely best benefit from a rhinoplasty, but you would have to be seen in person first to be properly evauated.
Hello and thank you for your question. The footplate of the right medial crura is displaced into your right nostril. This is usually due to a deviated septum and can be fixed with a septoplasty. The nostril or alar collapse you are referring to can be helped with cartilage grafts to the ala...
I would go ahead and have a closed reduction now, and wait several months to do the rhinoplasty. If the bones are displaced and you do nothing now, it may be more difficult to correct this as part of the rhinoplasty. Doing the rhinoplasty now would be a mistake in my opinion, for the reasons ...
You seem to be a good candidate, and yes a tip rhinoplasty seems to also be in order. That surgery in itself is not overly complicated, and the downtime is fairly minimal, with a very good result after 10-14 days, and swelling to continue to go down for another few months... but certainly...
Over the past 35+ years I've rarely used rib cartilage to augment the nasal bridge. Usually there is enough septal or ear cartilage available which is much easier to harvest. I also prefer diced cartilage so I don't have to worry about possible warping with onlay grafts.
