I've seen so many versions of my nose is the last 9 weeks, but I liked it best wk 4, does it get worse before it gets better? I'd like to understand a few things: 1. What criteria do surgeons assess if swelling is still present? 2. What is occurring within and beneath the skin that causes the nose to shapeshift during the first 3-4 months? 3. Is it common to see the shape of the "old nose," sometimes bigger, in situations of large reduction to tip as the skin settles over the new structure? Why?
October 21, 2021
Answer: Rhinoplasty recovery Hi,
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October 21, 2021
Answer: Rhinoplasty recovery Hi,
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October 16, 2021
Answer: Postoperative swelling after rhinoplasty. Postoperative swelling after rhinoplasty.. Swelling after rhinoplasty is the cause of a great deal of anxiety in many patients following rhinoplasty. Swelling during surgery is also the Factor that makes rhinoplasty so difficult since what the surgeon is seeing on the table is not necessarily what the final product is going to be. The term swelling is used to refer actually to more than one process early in the postoperative. There are really three factors involved. One is actual swelling of the soft tissues. This results from the surgical trauma much as you would get swollen if you were punched in the eye. Swelling is fluid accumulating in the tissue much as water accumulates in a sponge. It makes the tissue expand and look larger. The swelling after surgery is maximal at 48 hours postop. If that gradually goes down and is mostly gone in about 8 weeks .However as the swelling goes down the second factor which we refer to as “swelling“ increases . This factor is scar tissue. The surgery is performed underneath the skin between the skin and the cartilage and bone as the skin then read here’s to the cartilage, and bone and has the bone and Cartlidge heal scar tissue is formed .this develops over the period of 3 to 8 weeks and is maximum at 6 to 8 weeks. The scar tissue that forms in the area above the tip often can change the appearance of the nose and give it a slight convex shape in profile even though the original profile was either straight or slightly concave. The third factor is the original skin of the nose. The skin is not cut during surgery it Has to shrink. thin skin shrinks easily and quickly. Thick skin particularly in the area of the tip and just above the tip called the supratip can take a year or more to shrink , and in people with very thick skin ,three or even up to five years to shrink as much as it is going to. So there are three elements changing the appearance of the nose in the post operative period .Swelling, scar issue, and the skin which is still the skin of the old nose. All these interact in a complicated way which can make the nose at times look a little bit like a cross between the new nose and the old nose. Sometimes an injection of Cortizone is given in the area of the supratip to reduce swelling, dissolve scar tissue, and it can’t even atrophy or shrink normal tissue. Because of all these factors it is usually said that you do not see your final nose till at least one year after surgery particularly the lower halfAnd longer if you have thick skin.
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October 16, 2021
Answer: Postoperative swelling after rhinoplasty. Postoperative swelling after rhinoplasty.. Swelling after rhinoplasty is the cause of a great deal of anxiety in many patients following rhinoplasty. Swelling during surgery is also the Factor that makes rhinoplasty so difficult since what the surgeon is seeing on the table is not necessarily what the final product is going to be. The term swelling is used to refer actually to more than one process early in the postoperative. There are really three factors involved. One is actual swelling of the soft tissues. This results from the surgical trauma much as you would get swollen if you were punched in the eye. Swelling is fluid accumulating in the tissue much as water accumulates in a sponge. It makes the tissue expand and look larger. The swelling after surgery is maximal at 48 hours postop. If that gradually goes down and is mostly gone in about 8 weeks .However as the swelling goes down the second factor which we refer to as “swelling“ increases . This factor is scar tissue. The surgery is performed underneath the skin between the skin and the cartilage and bone as the skin then read here’s to the cartilage, and bone and has the bone and Cartlidge heal scar tissue is formed .this develops over the period of 3 to 8 weeks and is maximum at 6 to 8 weeks. The scar tissue that forms in the area above the tip often can change the appearance of the nose and give it a slight convex shape in profile even though the original profile was either straight or slightly concave. The third factor is the original skin of the nose. The skin is not cut during surgery it Has to shrink. thin skin shrinks easily and quickly. Thick skin particularly in the area of the tip and just above the tip called the supratip can take a year or more to shrink , and in people with very thick skin ,three or even up to five years to shrink as much as it is going to. So there are three elements changing the appearance of the nose in the post operative period .Swelling, scar issue, and the skin which is still the skin of the old nose. All these interact in a complicated way which can make the nose at times look a little bit like a cross between the new nose and the old nose. Sometimes an injection of Cortizone is given in the area of the supratip to reduce swelling, dissolve scar tissue, and it can’t even atrophy or shrink normal tissue. Because of all these factors it is usually said that you do not see your final nose till at least one year after surgery particularly the lower halfAnd longer if you have thick skin.
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