I had the hump removed from my nose, as well as a septoplasty. I am scared because I feel like I do not even look like myself. I don't even want to get out of the house. I know I still have swelling, but my face is not swollen anymore. It's just the tip of my nose. The space between my lips and nose is huge.
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You should have negligible swelling at this point, but the stock answer is you need to wait six months before passing final judgement. There is probably another 20% of "swollen" and some settling that will occur.At this point, you do look a little overprojected and the length of your upper lip...
Leave your dorsum (bridge/upper nose) alone.Straightforward and CONSERVATIVE tip /alar refinement is in order. You have delicate facial features and your nose is already pretty aesthetic, so less is more here.I am not a huge fan of alar base reduction/Weir excisions for reshaping the nostrils -...
For post rhinoplasty, I give my patients instructions to initially use a Q tip saturated in peroxide to gently remove dried blood in the nostrils. This can be accomplished by lightly rotating the Q tip and letting the peroxide break the dried blood down. This is very helpful to improve...