I am one month post op from a rhinoplasty, a few days ago I was feeling bad pain on one side of my septum and started using vasaline on it, which helped stop the pain completely, but today I looked closer and noticed that I have exposed cartilage on my septum where I was feeling the pain. Is this normal one month post op? If not how is it fixed?
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