If I go back to my dr for local anesthesia and rasping- do you think I will require another osteotomy? How many mm of rasping do you think I would require for my wish nose? The real photos are on the left and my wish noses on right.
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Yes, osteotomies need to be placed in the nasal bones to in order to straighten crooked nasal bones. The osteotomies are little cuts made in the nasal bones themselves, and then the bones are shifted back to their normal and straight position. Most patients also require a spreader graft pl...
First of all, it's important to wait at least a year before undergoing any revision surgery. You're only three weeks out from a previous surgery, and the nose is still significantly swollen. To straighten the midportion of the nose requires a spreader graft placed underneath the concave side. ...
In cosmetic rhinoplasty is a skin/soft tissue envelope which is too badly scarred to re-operate on (this would require very complex reconstructive techniques we normally reserve for difficult reconstructive cases)..provided that your nasal skin is still supple, a revision is 'possible' but w...