Is it safe to have an infected baby tooth pulled 1 week before rhinoplasty?

Your surgery needs to be postponed until your infection is treated and cleared completely. Pulling a tooth out is not a concern but infection is a serious concern before any surgery. Please consult your doctor and make sure your infection is cleared before moving with the operation. Removing the tooth itself will not affect the surgery, but the possibility of existing infection will. Good luck.

Dear mtallred,
every plastic surgeon has his own preoperative protocol which he recommends to his patients. I would suggest you to discuss this with your plastic surgeon.
Daniel Barrett, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

As a general rule, we try to make sure that people are completely healthy prior to moving forward with rhinoplasty. A typical course of antibiotics would be seven days long after treatment of the tooth/abscess. I would anticipate waiting to ensure the infection has completely resolved rather than doing the rhinoplasty so close to your dental procedure.

If you have an infected/ abscess tooth close to the nose, it's probably best get that dealt with first and wait approximately a month for full healing on the abscess before undergoing your elective rhinoplasty procedure.