1 month after surgery my nose was symmetrical and straight/smooth (bone). 4 months after surgery, the bridge looks wide and uneven from the sides & the tip definition is not symmetric - one side is more indented than the other. After 4 months is this likely to change or get better? Appareciate details on both bridge and tip.
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February 9, 2016
Answer: Changes May Still Occur, But Your Asymmetry Is Mild
This looks like a superficial infection at the incision line. The yellow/white drainage might be a dissolvable suture your surgeon may have used underneath the surface of the skin in order to hold the wound together. The nose is full of bacteria and often harbors a resistant strain of staph...
A closed rhinoplasty procedure can accomplish shaving down the dorsal hump, reducing the hanging columella, refining the tip and the bridge, all with the incisions placed on the inside of the nose. For more information and many examples of noses similar to your own and our current price...
Your surgeon may have performed external lateral fractures. This means that instead of using the osteotome through the nostrils, a very small one (generally 2mm wide) has been used piercing through the skin of the nose. This is commonly done, and it would not normally result in visible scars,...