1st rhinoplasty was to remove a hump but my surgeon left me with a breathing problem I had a open roof bridge was wide and tip ended up collapsing Decided for revision to fix tip/bridge I chose picture of a patient that he done in the past to have an idea the cute nose I wanted.After surgery my bridge still wide and high thought he was gonna break the bone to close my roof but no. Just fix the tip which is still fat glad there structure to it now but I still wanted it to be small and less droopy
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Hello, thank you for your question and shared information. Rhinoplasty as other surgeries requires well rest time to heal and the process for that is at least one year long. During that process any kind of intervention should not be performed as previous alterations.Now you need to follow up y...
We state that the nose is fully healed at a year. This is not true. You see 95 to 98% of the healing. However noses may change for years after surgery. Part may be due to scar contracture, skin shrinkage and cartilage settling. Some may be from natural aging. We also tend to leave more support...
From the photo that you have provided it does appear that you have at least external nasal valve collapse on the right with deep nasal inspiration. If you are having issues with breathing then I would pursue repair of the area. There are temporary non surgical alternatives to nasal valve re...
