Is Scarring After Open Rhinoplasty Permanent?

Depends on how it's fashioned and placed. I typically dice up the cartilage and wrap it with fascia. In combination we can get a significant amount of augmentation if needed

Immediately after surgery, I really stress to my patients frequent application of an antibiotic ointment along the columella incision site.  Once the sutures are removed and the incision is well healed over, I typically recommend discontinuing application of the ointment.  Redness to...

Depending on the views obtained, the turbinates do indeed show up on CT scan. However, recommendations to cauterize, infracture, or perform partial inferior turbinectomies or turbinoplasties are based on airway assessment, not JUST CT scan. Reading a CT scan is something radiologists do as...

Cutting of the frenulum is not a common procedure to be done during rhinoplasty.   Your surgeon may have had a reason to do this (perhaps to lessen nasal tip depression or upper lip movement with smiling) but most likely  would have discussed this with you prior to surgery...

In general the tip will soften a bit as the nose heals after rhinoplasty. It's not clear how far along in this process you are. The strut is there to provide extra support to the tip so it will likely be somewhat more stiff than before by design. This comcept goes for the prominence to...

Your initial tape and splint after rhinoplasty is rarely designed to be removed by the patient. In fact, I specifically tell my patients of another patient who removed her nasal tapes and splint to "see how it looked" and wrecked her nose, requiring re-operation. NO KIDDING. Do not...