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An elective surgery designed to improve one's appearance requires good healing for success. Smoking reduces circulation and works against ideal healing. So the 2 weeks before an elective surgery may be a good time to refrain from smoking, and this should be continued after surgery for several weeks during the healing process. If one can successfully achieve this, then TWO good things can come your way: a nice surgical result and a healthier life!
You should not smoke after your rhinoplasty. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Smoking and surgery do not mix well in the sense that smoking can impair wound healing and cause tissue death. Best to avoid smoking both befory and after surgery.
Thanks for the question.I hardly ever stop for smoking on first time nose job.However for the revision Rhinoplasty it may be important not to smoke too soon at least until your suture line has healed.Let you surgeon decide it.
Plastic surgery scars require attention after surgery so that they remain cosmetically-appealing and barely noticeable. In our office, we use a protocol for scars that minimizes their activity in the 6-8 weeks after surgery. If you have late plastic surgery scars, you may also require laser and...
The hump can be reduced and the nasal bones brought closer together. This may cost $4000 or so. Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of rhinoplasties and rhinoplasty revisions each year. Then look...
Taking fish oil after 2 months is ok. I would recommend speaking with your surgeon, as they may have specific guidelines they would like you to follow. I hope this helps, and best of luck to you.
It is perfectly fine to wait to fix the nasal fracture. Doing it early often times does not work anyway. If your nose was straight before the fracture, a well performed procedure will usually leave it straight after the healing takes place.
What you are feeling after your procedure is most likely a fragment of bone or cartilage which was not reduced satisfactorily during your procedure. The use of filler or fat transfer is successful in order to camouflage small irregularities of the nasal dorsum, but from your description it...
Medicaid will not cover a cosmetic procedure like a rhinoplasty...
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