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Generally speaking, it can take 6 to 12 months to completely heal after surgery. Please keep in touch with your surgeon or his/her clinical team to discuss your ongoing concerns.
This is very common particularly after prolonged surgical procedures. However, you should contact your surgeon to make sure it is not an allergic reaction. If it should rapidly progress you should go immediately to the emergency room or call 911
Swelling is normal after a rhinoplasty. It usually gets worse during the first few days and then gradually dissipates.
The severity and duration will vary after rhinoplasty surgery, but in 35 years I've never seen the entire face swell as you have described. My biggest concern is an allergic reaction. Report this to your surgeon as soon as possible.
Yes, you can have extensive swelling and black and blue after nasal surgery. It really depends on the patient themselves but also how the bones are broken, whether the turbinates are removed and whether the inferior nasal spine is removed. The swelling is usually the worse several days after a surgery and then subsides.
Sometimes the curve is lost because the surgeon had to make the incision more laterally than we like. Dermabrasion probably won't help and you should wait at least 1 year. Fortunately, you don't walk around with this view showing.
Unfortunately, it is easier to thin the skin than thicken it but different filler materials could be used as well as possibly fat injections. Other material could be implanted surgically like fascia, alloderm, cartilage. I would recommend seeing a plastic surgeon for a further evaluation.
You probably have a deviated septum that was not completely repaired. However, if they made your access incision for the septum on that side, it will be a little thick for the next few months. Incisions for closed rhinoplasty are also very similar to those made for septal surgery, so it is...