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.

Steroid shots will help only if the height is caused by scar tissue. If the bridge feels hard like bone, then it is probably the rib graft. If this is the case, patience is your best ally as sometimes there is some resorption of the rib graft in the first year and your bridge may end up looking just fine. If not, it may be removed, re-contoured, and replaced.