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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...
Most plastic surgeons will tell their patients that at 2 weeks after surgery, they can resume taking vitamins or over-the-counter supplements, etc. The risk of significant bleeding occurring 2 weeks post-operatively is extremely low. As always, you should contact the plastic surgeon’s office o...
The best timing to get your nasal bones "reset" after an injury is 5-14 days after an event. This is a golden window of opportunity in a surgeons mind to try to mobilize bones back to pre-injury state. This can be safely done in the office under local anesthesia with minimal discomfort even in...
Its hard to tell without a picture or good examination. It would be unusual for the bone to poke through. If it were graft material that was placed, I would be more concerned since the body can reject those and they have been known to extrude when very close to the skin. Bone on the other hand...
Hi Medicaid and Medicare and even private insurances do not pay for elective cosmetic surgery. If you have a deviated septum then that may be covered, paying a portion of the hospital and anesthesia fees but the septoplasty is separate from cosmetic changes and your surgeon will...
