Steroid Injections for Decreasing Nose Bridge Height?

Dear rhinoplasty patient from Los Angeles,
Steroid injection will not resolve the prominence of your nasal bridge. The solution is removal, reshaping of the graft, and then placing back in. Steroids usually help scar and prolonged swelling. Talk to your surgeon, he should be able to do that for you. Good luck and good healing.
 

In general, it is not a good idea to do steroid injections in revision rhinoplasty except if it is carefully placed in a patient with thick skin in the supratip area and is given early post operatively. One must make sure it is not intradermal, but in the deep subcutaneous tissue in low doses. I would not recommend injecting anywhere else, certainly not to reduce the dorsum of the nose after a revision rhinoplasty. It will only cause skin atrophy, skin discoloration and excess telangiectasia (broken blood vessels) of the skin.

The biggest question is do you need a steroid injection to reduce callus which sometimes works or is this not scar tissue at all?    If the graft was too dominant and large then no ammount of steriod will work.  Sometimes, though, what you may actually be seeing is that the highest part of your nose, near you forehead, is too low giving the pseduoimpression that your bridge is too high.  In this instance, the reverse is necessary, and its often that a small ammount of filler (juvederm, restylane) in this region will fix the "bump" and give you a longer and more elegant nose.  Some points to consider that profile photos may help the surgeon decide upon.