Hello, I am one day post op and was wondering if light sniffling and breathing out of my nose is ok to do? I am breathing out of my mouth as much as I can, but when dozing off to get some rest I noticed that I was breathing out of my nose. Also as soon as I got out of surgery I really didn't know what was going on so I took a deep sniffle, that ws the last time I sniffled deep. I just want to make sure I'm not doing or have done anything that could reallly affect my healing and outcome. Thank u.
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Great question. There are a lot of muscles on the face that are involved in smiling, and some of those muscles also connect to the sides of the nose. Therefore, when we smile, it pulls the nose up and outward, and every nose gets wider when the person smiles. Some get wider than others, and some...
Dear Rhandy:
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