I am 2 1/2 years post op surgery to fix a slightly deviated septum. The surgery was a failure whereas my intentions were for surgery purely for cosmetic reasons, however, doctor performed bridge widening osteotomies and installed spreader grafts to increase turbinate size and breathing instead. Can this be error be repaired and grafts removed to make nose smaller and less wide as was prior?
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In general the swelling will subside in a normal fashion after a rhinoplasty or revision rhinoplasty. When a rib graft is used, it usually tents up the skin and allows for more space for swelling to accumulate. The maximum amount of scar tissue is usually accumulated until six weeks, then things...
Dear Merelself,
Thank you for your clinical post. It appears after your revision rhinoplasty
there is a over rotation of the tip with a over projection, as well. This gives an excessive “scoop” deformity of
the nasal bridge, which was attractive in the 70’s and 80’s, but generally the
aes...
While it is probably too early for revision surgery, the solution for you is radix grafting using autogenous cartilage onlay grafts, preferably. Whatever the source, the grafts can be tailored to be narrower along the cephalic margins, which will restore the narrower dorsal contour that you...
